Job 30:4
They cut up mallow plants by the bushes, 1 and juniper roots for their lechem. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3For choser (want, lack) and hunger 1 they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste. 1
5They were banished from among men, 1 (they shouted after them as after a ganav); 1
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38And Elishah returned to Gilgal; and there was a ra'av (famine) in the land; and the Bnei HaNevi'im were sitting before him; and he said unto his na'ar, Put on the siyr hagedolah, and cook stew for the Bnei HaNevi'im.
Luke 15:16And he was longing to fill his mogen (stomach) with the pods which the chazirim were eating, and no one was giving anything 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 →