Job 30:4
There they pick desert herbs and the leaves of bushes, and eat the roots of broom trees.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3Thin through hunger and want, they try to eat the dry ground in the dark, desolate wilderness.
5They were driven out of the community.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38When Elisha went back to Gilgal, there was a famine in that area. The sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, and he said to his servant, “Use the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Luke 15:16He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food, but 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 →