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Job 30:4
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Job 30:4 · Bible in Basic English
Job 30:4 in other translations
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
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In context
1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
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