Job 30:4
Good News Translation
They pulled up the plants of the desert and ate them, even the tasteless roots of the broom tree!

New Revised Standard Version
they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

Contemporary English Version
They gather tasteless shrubs for food and firewood,

New American Bible
They plucked saltwort and shrubs; the roots of the broom plant were their food.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

for their meat

2 Kings 4:38,39 And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there was a famine in the land, and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets. . . .

Amos 7:14 But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

Luke 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. 4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.5Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.…
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 30:3
Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

Job 30:5
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

Job 30:3
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