Job 30:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered wild gourds, filling his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew: for they did not know them.
  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

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