Job 30:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² Of what use to me was the strength of their hands?
    Their vigor had completely wasted away.
³ “Enfeebled by want and hunger,
    they gnawed roots in the wilderness,
    a gloomy place of dry and desolate ground.
⁴ They plucked saltwort and scrub for food,
    and they ate the roots of the broom tree.^[a]