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Job 30:2-4
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2 Furthermore, what could I have gained
    from men whose strength is gone?
3 Unproductive due to poverty[a] and hunger,
    they could only scratch in parched soil,
        devastated and desolated.

4 “They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat;
    and roots of the broom shrub[b] for food.

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  1. Job 30:3 Or want
  2. Job 30:4 I.e. a desert bush native to Israel whose bitter roots could be harvested by the destitute and eaten when food was scarce
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