They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXX. It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the…