Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
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

They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
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] saltwort (mallows) among the bushes,
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Who cut up
קטף 
Qataph 
Usage: 5

מלּוּח 
Malluwach 
Usage: 1

by the bushes
שׂיח 
Siyach 
Usage: 4

and juniper
רתם רתם 
Rethem 
Usage: 4

שׁרשׁ 
Sheresh 
Usage: 33

References

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

3 “From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
5 “They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,


Cross References

2 Kings 4:38-39

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Amos 7:14

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

Luke 15:16

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

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