Job 30:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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 juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Job 30:3

They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Job 30:5

They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief.

Amos 7:14

Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a dresser of sycomore trees:

Luke 15:16

And he would fain have been filled with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.