World English Bible
"They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food."
— Job 30:4, World English 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. ”
“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 who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.