Job 30:4
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
In Context
3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
5From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine [is] in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, 'Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.'
Luke 15:16and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving 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 →