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Job 30:4

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30:4By the brush9 they would gather10 herbs from the salt marshes,11

and the root of the broom tree was their food.

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Footnotes

  1. 9 Or “the leaves of bushes” (ESV), a possibility dating back to Saadia and discussed by G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray (Job [], 2:) in their philological notes.
  2. 10 Here too the form is the participle with the article.
  3. 11 Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,

and the roots of the broom tree for their food.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In the brush they gathered salt herbs,

and their food was the root of the broom bush.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They plucked mallow among the shrubs,

and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

They pluck wild greens from among the bushes

and eat from the roots of broom trees.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes,

and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Who cut up mallows by the bushes,

And juniper roots for their meat.

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