4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
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.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
30:4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
30:4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
30:4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
30:4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.