Catholic Public Domain Version
"And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food. "
— Job 30:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.”
“They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food. ”
“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, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.
They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.
They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.