איוב 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Context
This verse from איוב Chapter 30 connects to 4 cross-references. The contrast with chapter 29 is stark: now Job is mocked by the worthless children of outcasts, abandoned by God who has become his adversary, and left to cry out in pain with no answer. He describes his wasting body …
תרגומים נוספים
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots <FI>is<Fi> their food.
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
הפניות צולבות
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets …
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds …
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was …
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave …