Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
New American Standard Bible
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Holman Bible
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
International Standard Version
"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.
A Conservative Version
They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
American Standard Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
Amplified
“They pluck [and eat]
And their food is the root of the broom shrub.
Bible in Basic English
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Darby Translation
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Julia Smith Translation
Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and [the] roots of broom trees to warm themselves.
Modern King James verseion
those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
plucking up herbs from among the bushes, and the Juniper's root was their meat.
NET Bible
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
New Heart English Bible
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
The Emphasized Bible
Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;
Webster
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
World English Bible
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
Youngs Literal Translation
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
3 From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste. 4 Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38-39
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a famine 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.
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 gatherer of sycamore fruit:
Luke 15:16
And he would gladly have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.