Job 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.

biblegateway Job 30:4

In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

biblegateway Job 30:4

Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

biblegateway Job 30:4

They eat coarse leaves, and they burn the roots of shrubs for heat.

biblegateway Job 30:4

Homeless guttersnipes chewing on old bones and licking old tin cans;

SABDAweb Job 30:4

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

bibleoremus Job 30:4

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

biblegateway Job 30:4

Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.

biblegateway Job 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.