NET Bible
"By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food."
— Job 30:4, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–
so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.