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


In Context

1 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

2 The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

3 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

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

5 Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

6 They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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