Job 30:4 · KJV
“Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.”
— Job 30:4
For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
Job 30 — Context
Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
3For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
5They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks. {caves: Heb. holes}
Cross References
Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
Amos 7:14
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I {was} no prophet, neither {was} I a prophet's son; but I {was} an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: {sycomore...: or, wild figs}
2 Kings 4:38-39
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and {there was} a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets {were} sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.