Job 30:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, || And their food [is] root of broom trees.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.

JPS

They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

LXXE

Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

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WLC

הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂ֑יחַ וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἄλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἄλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ῥὶζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου.

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• Luke 15:16He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
• 2 Kings 4:38–39When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”…
• Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

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