Job 30:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Luke 15:16

He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.

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,

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.