Job 30:4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

Job 30:4

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New International Version (©1984)
In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They pick saltwort from the underbrush, and the roots of the broom plant are their food.

King James Bible
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

American King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

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

Bible in Basic English
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Darby Bible Translation
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

English Revised Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

Geneva Study Bible

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

30:4 Who cut - Bitter herbs, which shews their extreme necessity. Juniper - Possibly the word may signify some other plant, for the Hebrews themselves are at a loss for the signification of the names of plants.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. mallows-rather, "salt-wort," which grows in deserts and is eaten as a salad by the poor [Maurer].

by the bushes-among the bushes.

juniper-rather, a kind of broom, Spartium junceum [Linnæus], still called in Arabia, as in the Hebrew of Job, retem, of which the bitter roots are eaten by the poor.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Job 30:3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Job 30:5 "They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief, (NASB ©1995)

Broom Broom-roots Brushwood Bushes Cropping Cut Gather Gathered Herbs Juniper Leaves Making Mallow Mallows Meal Meat Pick Pluck Pulling Root Roots Salt Salt-wort Shrub Themselves Tree Warm Wormwood

Broom Brush Brushwood Bushes Cut Food Gather Gathered Herbs Juniper Leaves Making Mallows Meal Meat Pick Pluck Pulling Root Roots Salt Shrub Themselves Tree Warm Wormwood

Broom Brush Brushwood Bushes Cut Food Gather Gathered Herbs Juniper Leaves Making Mallows Meal Meat Pick Pluck Pulling Root Roots Salt Shrub Themselves Tree Warm Wormwood

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

mallows (The Hebrew malluach, in Arabic, malluch and in Syriac mallucho, is probably the halimus of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.)

juniper roots (The Hebrew rothem, in Arabic, ratim, and in Spanish, retama, most probably signifies the genista or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.)

for their meat 2Ki 4:38,39 Am 7:14 Lu 15:16

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