Job 30:4
“Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.”
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Job 30:4 Context
2Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished? 3For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste: 4Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate. 5They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.) 6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
- King James Version
Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
- New American Standard Version (1995)