Job 30:4

And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

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In The King James Version

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

In Context

3They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.

5They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:38And Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets were living in his sight. And he said to one of his servants, “Set out a large cooking pot, and boil a soup for the sons of the prophets.”

Luke 15:16And he wanted to fill his belly with the scraps that the swine ate. But no one would give it 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 →

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