Job 30:4
They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
5They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38Afterward Elisha returned to Gilgal, and a famine was in the land, and the children of the Prophets dwelt with him. And hee sayd vnto his seruant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the children of the Prophets.
Luke 15:16And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them 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 →