Job 30:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 30:3

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

Job 30:5

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

Amos 7:14

Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

Luke 15:16

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.