Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
plucking up herbs from among the bushes, and the Juniper's root was their meat.
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.
King James 2000
Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
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.
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 For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars, 4 plucking up herbs from among the bushes, and the Juniper's root was their meat. 5 And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38-39
When Elisha was come to Gilgal again, there was a dearth in the land, and the children of the prophets dwelt with him. Then he said to his servant, "Put on a great pot, and make pottage for the children of the prophets."
Amos 7:14
Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, "As for me I am neither prophet, nor prophet's son: but a keeper of cattle. Now as I was breaking down mulberries, and going after the cattle,
Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him.