Job 30:4
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
5They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry 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 unto his servant, 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 that 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 →