American Standard Version
"They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food. "
— Job 30:4, American Standard Version
“Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.”
“They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.”
“By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.”
“And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.”
“They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.”
“Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.”
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.