Job 30:4

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

They are plucking mallow among the brush, and the root of the broom tree is their bread.

Latin

Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices, et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum:

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Luke 15:16
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
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.
2 Kings 4:38–39
When 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.”

Glossary

Book of Job Broom God, Names of Juniper Mallow, Saltwort

Topics

Herbs: Mallows Juniper: A Tree Mallows: A Plant Persecution of Job

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