Job 30:4
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.
Luke 15:16And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
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 →