Job 30:4

They plucked saltwort and bushes' leaves; 1 the roots of the broom tree were their food. 1

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

In Context

3They were thin from poverty and hunger; 1 they gnawed at the dry ground in the darkness of wilderness and desolation. 1

5They were driven out from among people 1 who shouted after them as one would shout after a thief. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:38Then Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, “Put the large pot on the fire and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Luke 15:16He would gladly have eaten the carob pods that the pigs ate, because no one gave him anything.

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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