Job 30:4
They gather purslain among the bushes, And the root of the broom is their bread.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3By want and hunger they are famished; They gnaw the dry desert, The darkness of desolate wastes.
5They are driven from the society of men; There is a cry after them as after a thief.
Cross References
Luke 15:16And he longed to fill himself with the husks that the swine ate; and no one gave to 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 →