Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.In other versions
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
ASV
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
BBE
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
DBY
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
WEB
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.
YLT
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
ENG
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
WBT
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
BSB
In context
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.