Job 30:4

By the brush ¹  they would gather ²  herbs from the salt marshes, ³  and the root of the broom tree was their food.

In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

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

They eat coarse leaves, and they burn the roots of shrubs for heat.

Homeless guttersnipes chewing on old bones and licking old tin cans;

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.

By the brush ¹  they would gather ²  herbs from the salt marshes, ³  and the root of the broom tree was their food.

¹ tn Or “the leaves of bushes” (ESV), a possibility dating back to Saadia and discussed by G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray (Job [ICC], 2:209) in their philological notes.

² tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.

³ tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.