Job 30:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they ate grass and barks of trees: and the root of junipers was their food.

Job 30:4 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 30:3

Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

Job 30:5

They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief.

Amos 7:14

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees,

Luke 15:16

He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.