Job 30:4

King James Version (KJV)

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

In context

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.

KJV King James Version: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
WEB World English Bible: They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
ASV American Standard Version: They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
DBY Darby Translation: They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
WBS Webster Bible: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.