Verse List for JOB 30:4

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B I ◄ ← Job 30:4 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) They pick mallow leaves off the wild bushes, ⇔ ≈ and roots of broom trees have become their food.

OET-LV those_who_pluck _off mallow on bush[es] and_the_root _of broom _plants their _food_them.

ULT ones plucking mallow among the brush, ⇔  and the root of broom trees, is their bread.

UST They look among bushes to find leaves that they can eat. ⇔  They pull up broom trees and eat their roots.

BSB & MSB They plucked mallow among the shrubs, ⇔  and the roots of the broom tree were their food.[fn]

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. ⇔  The roots of the broom tree are their food.

NET By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, ⇔ and the root of the broom tree was their food.

LSV Those cropping mallows near a shrub,
And their food [is] root of broom trees.

FBV There they pick desert herbs and the leaves of bushes, and eat the roots of broom trees.

T4T They pulled up plants in the desert and ate them ⇔  and warmed themselves by burning the roots of broom trees.

LEB • They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes,
• and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.

BBE They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Moff gathering saltwort under bushes, ⇔  using broom-roots for their fuel.

JPS They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

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

DRA And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

YLT Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.

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

RV They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

SLT Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

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

KJB-1769 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

KJB-1611 Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.
(Who cut up mallowes by the bushes, and Juniper roots for their meat.)

Bshps Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate.
(Plucking up nettles among the busshes, and the juniper roots for their meat.)

Gnva They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
(They cut up nettels by the bushes, and the juniper roots was their meat.)

Cvdl pluckynge vp herbes from amonge the bu?shes, & the Iunipers rote was their meate.
(plucking up herbs from among the bu?shes, and the Junipers root was their meat.)

Wycl and eeten eerbis, aud the ryndis of trees; and the roote of iunyperis was her mete.
(and eaten eerbis, and the ryndis of trees; and the root of iunyperis was her mete.)

Luth die da Nesseln ausrauften um die Büsche, und Wacholderwurzel war ihre Speise;
(the there Nesseln runs_outen around/by/for the bushes, and Stay_awake/alertolderwurzel what/which their/her food;)

ClVg Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices, et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum:[fn]
(And mandebant grasss, and of_trees cortices, and root yuniperorum was food their:)

UHB הַ⁠קֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂ֑יחַ וְ⁠שֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַ⁠חְמָֽ⁠ם׃ ‡

BrLXX Οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἄλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἄλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ῥὶζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου.

BrTr Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.