Job 30:4
They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
5They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Luke 15:16And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →