Job Chapter 30 verse 4 Holy Bible
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
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They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
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They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
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They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
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Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Who cut up mallows by the bushes. One of the plants on which they feed is the malluch, not really a "mallow," but probably the Atriplex halimus which is "a shrub from four to five feet high, with many thick branches; the leaves are rather sour to the taste; the flowers are purple, and very small; it grows on the sea-coast in Greece, Arabia, Syria, etc., and belongs to the natural order Chenopodiace" (see Smith's 'Dict. of the Bible,' vol. 2. p. 215). And juniper roots for their meat. Most moderns regard the rothen as the Genista monosperma, which is a kind of broom. It is a leguminous plant, having a white flower. and grows plentifully in the Sinaitic desert, in Palestine, Syria, and Arabia. The root is very bitter, and would only be used as food under extreme pressure, but the fruit is readily eaten by sheep, and the roots would, no doubt, yield some nourishment (see Dr. Cunningham Geikie's work,' The Holy Land and the Bible,' vol. 1. p. 258).
