Job 30:4

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

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 himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.