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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 30:4

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Job30:4

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.

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