Job 30:4
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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.

Lexicon
They plucked
הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים (haq·qō·ṭə·p̄îm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6998: To pluck off or out

mallow
מַלּ֣וּחַ (mal·lū·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4408: Sea-purslain

among
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the shrubs,
שִׂ֑יחַ (śî·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7880: A bush, shrub, plant

and the roots
וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ (wə·šō·reš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8328: A root

of the broom tree
רְתָמִ֣ים (rə·ṯā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7574: Broom plant, retem

were their food.
לַחְמָֽם׃ (laḥ·mām)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain


Additional Translations
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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