Job 30:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 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. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
  • Amos 7:14 : 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:
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

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