4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.


In Context

1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

2 Also — the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.

3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

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 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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