VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 30:4

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

Read it in 5 translations

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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

They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

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

1 But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

2 Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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

5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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