Job 30:4

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.

[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.

[30:4]  ² tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.

[30:4]  ³ tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.