Job 30:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ They plucked mallow  , among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, And juniper roots for their meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They pluck saltwort or mallows among the bushes, and roots of the broom for their food or to warm them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

Common English Bible

⁴ who pluck off the leaves on a bush, the root of the broom— a shrub is their food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Job 30:4 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree  and prayed that he might die. He said, ‘I have had enough! Lord, take my life,  for I’m no better than my ancestors.’

Job 30:3

Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

Job 30:5

They were banished from human society; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

Amos 7:14

So Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was  not a prophet or the son of a prophet;  , rather, I was  a herdsman,  and I took care of sycamore figs.

Luke 15:16

He longed to eat his fill from   the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.