4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.


In Context

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 Yes, 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 thief;)

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

Job 30:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.