Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
All Commentaries on Job 30:4 Go To Job 30
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Grass. "There (in Crete, where no noxious animal, no serpent lives) the herb alimos, being chewed, expels hunger for the day "admorsa diurnam famem prohibet. (Solin. 17.)
The Hebrew malluach, is rendered halima, by the Septuagint (Haydock) and Bo chart would translate, "who gather the halima from the bush. "(Calmet)
Protestants, "who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. "(Haydock)
Yet all agree that the latter is not proper for food. (Calmet)
Rethamim may (Haydock) designate any "shrubs or wild herbs "as the Septuagint and Symmachus have explained it. (Calmet)
Perhaps the very poor people might use the juniper or broom roots for food, (Menochius) or to burn in order to prepare their victuals. (Haydock)
The Arabs and Spaniards still use the word retama for "the birch-tree. "(Parkhurst)
