Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Job 30:4
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Berean Standard Bible
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
World English Bible
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
American Standard Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
Berean Literal Bible
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Job 30
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
5 They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
6 so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
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