(The name of) a patriarch of the land of Uz, the eponymous protagonist of a book of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, taken as the type of…

Destitute of means; without resources. Now literary.

Empty-handed; destitute. Obsolete.

Ashamed; vulnerable; destitute.

Empty-handed; destitute. Obsolete. rare.

In similative phrases indicating extremity or intensity, as (as) drunk, (also mad, poor,†rank, weak,etc.) as a rat.

Thievish, marauding; needy, beggarly (with play on hungry: cf. sense B. 2; see Nares). Obsolete slang.

That is a pauper; destitute.

Of persons: Forsaken, left friendless or helpless, forlorn. (Blending at length with sense A. 3)

Without a farthing; destitute.

(a) penniless, destitute; (b) dazed, absent-minded.

of an extremely poor quality or standard.