Job 30:4 | NET2full | STEP | By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes , and the root of the broom tree was their food .

‏ Job 30:4

4 By the brush ^{▼▼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.} they would gather ^{▼▼tn Here too the form is the participle with the article.} herbs from the salt marshes, ^{▼▼tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.}
and the root of the broom tree was their food.