Bible verse
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Job 30:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 30.
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
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.
7 They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
8 A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
KJV
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
ASV
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
ERV
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.
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