Job 30:3-4

30:3

gaunt <01565> [solitary. or, dark as the night.]

gnaw .... land <06207 06723> [fleeing into.]

former time <0570> [in former time. Heb. yesternight.]

30:4

herbs <04408> [mallows.]

The Hebrew {mallu„ch,} in Arabic, {malluch,} and in Syriac {mallucho,} is probably the [Lalima or Lalimos] of the Greeks, and {halimus} of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.

root .... broom tree <08328 07574> [juniper roots.]

The Hebrew {rothem,} in Arabic, {ratim,} and in Spanish, {retama,} most probably signifies the {genista} or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.

food <03899> [for their meat.]