Job 30:4

Who crop off mallows by the bushes, and have broom-bush roots as their bread;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Who suffer for want and famine in solitude; who flee into the wilderness [where all is] darkness, ruin, and desolation;

5Who are driven forth from among [men], who are shouted after as though they were thieves,

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:38And Elisha' returned to Gilgal; and there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the large pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

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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