Job 30:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 30:4 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Cross-References

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Luke 15:16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
2 Kings 4:38-39
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. …
Amos 7:14
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

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Botany Juniper Mallows

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job’s was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:— I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. mallows--rather, “salt-wort,” which grows in deserts and is eaten as a salad by the poor [Maurer]. by the bushes--among the bushes. juniper--rather, a kind of broom, Spartium junceum [Linnæus], still called in Arabia, as in the Hebrew of Job, retem, of which the bitter roots are eaten by the poor.