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Job 30:4

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.

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 thief;)

6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

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BSB
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
KJV
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
WEB
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
ASV
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
DARBY
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
BLB
They [are] plucking mallow among the brush, and the root of the broom tree is their bread.
ÅB
de plukker melde innunder buskene, og gyvelbuskens røtter er deres brød.
OTB
De som samler salturt ved buskene,
og hvis mat er roten av gyvelbusken.
B1930
de plukker melde innunder buskene, og gyvelbuskens røtter er deres brød.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Luke 15:16

    And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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  • Amos 7:14

    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

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  • 2 Kings 4:38–39

    And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

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