Job 30:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:38-39 : 38 Elisha Makes a Meal Edible Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant,“Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.” 39 Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.
  • Amos 7:14 : 14 Amos replied to Amaziah,“I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.
  • Luke 15:16 : 16 He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

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    35They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

  • Job 24:5-6
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    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

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  • Job 24:10-11
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  • Ps 107:4-5
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    6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

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    18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

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    9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.

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  • Mic 7:14
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