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Job 30:4
Job 30:4 is verse 4 of Job chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Or their fuel
King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
World English Bible
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
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Job 30:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
5 They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
6 so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 4:38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
2 Kings 4:39One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
Luke 15:16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.