Job 30:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the 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 broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 30:3

Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

Job 30:5

They are driven out from among men; they 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

And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate; and no one gave him anything.