Job 30:4

New Century Version

They gathered desert plants among the brush and ate the root of the broom tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. He sat down under a bush and asked to die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 30:3

They were thin from hunger and wandered the dry and ruined land at night.

Job 30:5

They were forced to live away from people; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

Amos 7:14

Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I do not make my living as a prophet, nor am I a member of a group of prophets. I make my living as a shepherd, and I take care of sycamore trees.

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.