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


In Context

1 |But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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

5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of 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 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.