Job 30:4

And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

5Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:38And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him. And he said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

Luke 15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto 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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