Job 30:4

New English Translation

By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Job 30:3

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:5

They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –

Amos 7:14

Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.

Luke 15:16

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.