job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

job 30:4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

4. mallows--rather, "salt-wort," which grows in deserts and is eaten as a salad by the poor [MAURER].
by the bushes--among the bushes.
juniper--rather, a kind of broom, Spartium junceum [LINNÆUS], still called in Arabia, as in the Hebrew of Job, retem, of which the bitter roots are eaten by the poor.

job 30:4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

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