Job 30:4

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

In context

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 down like thieves,

6 so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

BSB Berean Standard Bible: They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
KJV King James Version: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
WEB World English Bible: They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
ASV American Standard Version: They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
DBY Darby Translation: They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
WBS Webster Bible: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.