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.
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