King James Version

Job 30:4

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

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הַקֹּטְפִ֣יםhaqotefimthe crop offקָטַףdefinite article, verb, qal, participle, absolute — “the crop off”, a verb used as a describing wordH6998to strip offcrop off, cut down (up), pluck.מַלּ֣וּחַmaluchamallowsמַלּוּחַnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “mallows”, the ordinary formH4408sea-purslain (from its saltness)mallows.עֲלֵיaleaboveעַלpreposition — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…שִׂ֑יחַsichabushשִׂיחַnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “bush”, the ordinary formH7880a shoot (as if uttered or put forth), i.e. (generally) shrubberybush, plant, shrub.וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁveshoreshand rootשֶׁרֶשׁconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “and root”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH8328a root (literally or figuratively)bottom, deep, heel, root.רְתָמִ֣יםretamimjuniperרֶתֶםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “juniper”, the ordinary formH7574the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems)juniper (tree).לַחְמָֽםlachmamto breadלֶחֶםpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “to bread”, the to-form of the verbH3899food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)(shew-) bread, [idiom] eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

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American Standard Version (1901)

They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

Young’s Literal Translation

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.

World English Bible

They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.

Darby Translation

They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

Douay-Rheims

And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore , who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἄλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἄλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ῥὶζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου.