Job 30:4 — Bible Verse (KJV)

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

Job 30:4 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Job 30:4 in 6 Bible Translations

Read Job 30:4 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.

Job 30:4 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.”

Job 30:4 — World English Bible

Job 30:4 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Job 30:4 — American Standard Version

Job 30:4 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots <FI>is<Fi> their food.”

Job 30:4 — Young's Literal Translation

Job 30:4 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food. ”

Job 30:4 — Darby Translation

Job 30:4 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.”

Job 30:4 — Geneva Bible

Job 30:4 in Context — Job 30

2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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

5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

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What Does Job 30:4 Mean?

Job 30:4 is a verse from the Book of Job, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Job chapter 30. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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