Job 30:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.
  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

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    3They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • Job 30:5-7
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    5They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

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  • Ps 105:35
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    35And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

  • Job 24:5-6
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    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:39
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    39And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.

  • Job 5:5
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    5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

    11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
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    29And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 107:4-5
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    4They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

    5Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • Num 11:6
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    6But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

  • Ps 107:18
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    18They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

  • Isa 15:7
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    7For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

  • Lam 5:9
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    9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

  • Mic 7:14
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    14Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

    6And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

  • Lam 4:5
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    5Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

  • Mic 3:3
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    3Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Judg 6:4
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    4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

  • Ezek 4:17
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  • Hos 13:6
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  • Ps 120:4
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  • Joel 1:17
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    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Num 11:4
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    4And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

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    24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • Isa 37:27
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    7My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

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    15Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • Ezek 4:13
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    13And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

  • Job 24:2
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    2The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

  • Ezek 19:12
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    12But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

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    5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Job 40:21
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    21Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?

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  • Isa 27:10
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  • Ps 80:13
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    13It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • Joel 1:19
    66%

    19O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.