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Of what use to me was the strength of their hands?
    Their strength is gone.
        Shriveled up from need and hunger,
            they gnaw at the dry and barren ground during the night.[a]
        They pick saltwort from the underbrush,
            and the roots of the broom plant are their food.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:3 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.
  2. Job 30:4 Or “they use the roots of the broom plant for warmth.”

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