Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for 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.
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.
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 Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated. 4 "They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food. 5 Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 4:38-39
Elisha returned to Gilgal during a time of famine in the land. While the Guild of Prophets were having a meal with him, he instructed his attendant, "Put a large pot on the fire and boil some stew for the Guild of Prophets."
Amos 7:14
Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.
Luke 15:16
No one would give him anything, even though he would gladly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating.