Job 30:4

Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, 1 Who had salt herbs for their food, 1 And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; 1 Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3One is childless in want and famine, 1 Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. 1

5Thieves have risen up against me, 1

Read all of Job 30

Cross References

2 Kings 4:38And Elisha returned to Gilgal: and a famine was in the land; and the sons of the prophets sat before him: and Elisha said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 30:4