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The Book of Job, Chapter 30, Verse 4

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For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
King James Version
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
American Standard Version
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
New English Translation
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
World English Bible
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
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They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].