Job 30:4

New English Translation

⁴By the brush^[a] they would gather^[b] herbs from the salt marshes,^[c]
and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Job 30:4 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.
Job 30:4 tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.
Job 30:4 tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.

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