30:4 By the brush 1 they would gather 2 herbs from the salt marshes, 3
and the root of the broom tree was their food.
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.