Text -- Job 30:4 (NET)

30:4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 30:4

¹ tn Or “the leaves of bushes” (ESV), a possibility dating back to Saadia and discussed by G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray (Job [ICC], 2:209) in their philological notes.

² tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.

³ tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.