Job 30:4

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

Cross-references

2 Kings 4:39 describes gathering wild gourds for food — a similar act of foraging for survival as the salt herbs and broom root.

Luke 15:16 Parallel

In Luke 15:16, the prodigal son longs for pig pods — similarly desperate eating of lowly food in extreme hunger.