Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:4

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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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"