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


In Context

1 "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

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

5 They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.

6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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