Job 30:4 | JFB | STEP | 4. mallows-- rather, "salt-wort," which grows in deserts and is eaten as a salad by the poor [Maurer]. by the bushes-- among the bushes. juniper-- rather, a kind of broom, Spartium junceum [Linnæus], still called in Arabia, as in the Hebrew of Job, retem, of which the bitter roots are eaten by the poor.

‏ Job 30:4

4. mallows--rather, "salt-wort," which grows in deserts and is eaten as a salad by the poor [Maurer].

by the bushes--among the bushes.

juniper--rather, a kind of broom, Spartium junceum [Linnæus], still called in Arabia, as in the Hebrew of Job, retem, of which the bitter roots are eaten by the poor.