Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible 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. Jump to Previous 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 WormwoodJump to Next 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 WormwoodLinks Job 30:4 NIVJob 30:4 NLT Job 30:4 ESV Job 30:4 NASB Job 30:4 Bible Apps Job 30:4 Biblia Paralela Job 30:4 Chinese Bible Job 30:4 French Bible Job 30:4 German Bible Alphabetical: and broom brush bushes by food gathered herbs In is mallow of pluck root salt shrub the their they tree was Who whose OT Poetry: Job 30:4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |