Job 30:4
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
5They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Luke 15:16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
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 →