Job 30:4
Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3In want and hunger, they were lean,—who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!
5Out of the midst, were they driven, men shouted after them, as after a thief;
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38Now, Elisha, returned to Gilgal, and there was, a famine, in the land, and, the sons of the prophets, being seated before him, he said to his young man—Put on the large pot, and boil a mess of food, for the sons of the prophets.
Luke 15:16And he used to long to be filled with the pods which the swine were eating; and, no man, was giving unto 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 →