Devine Scripture

Job 30:4

Job chapter 30 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

v.4This passage

v.5They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Kings 4:38

    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 boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

  • 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 a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees: