Job 30:4
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
5They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Luke 15:16He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
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 →