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Job 30:4
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.
Geneva Bible 1599
They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
Darby Translation
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Young's Literal Translation
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
Bible in Basic English
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
5They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
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