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


In Context

1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

2 Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

3 Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

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

5 They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief —

6 To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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