The Meaning of Job 30:4 Explained

Job 30:4

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

YLT: Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

Darby: They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

ASV: They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 30:4 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:4 mean?

Who pluck mallow by the bushes and roots [for] broom tree their food
הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־ שִׂ֑יחַ וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם

הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים  Who  pluck 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: קָטַף  
Sense: to pluck off or out, cut off.
מַלּ֣וּחַ  mallow 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מַלּוּחַ  
Sense: mallow.
שִׂ֑יחַ  the  bushes 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שִׂיחַ  
Sense: bush, plant, shrub.
וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ  and  roots  [for] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: שֹׁרֶשׁ  
Sense: root.
רְתָמִ֣ים  broom  tree 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: רֹתֶם  
Sense: broom-plant, retem.
לַחְמָֽם  their  food 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person masculine plural
Root: לֶחֶם  
Sense: bread, food, grain.

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