Job 30:4
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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10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
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18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
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17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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