“Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.”
They pluck salt wort among the bushes, and their food is the root of the broom, extending the depiction of desperate subsistence living, suggesting that Job's mockers consume plants of minimal nutritional value. The plucking of salt wort—a plant of the arid regions—suggests scavenging the harshest landscape for barely-edible vegetation. The eating of broom root suggests consumption of the least nutritious plant parts. The verse emphasizes the absolute marginalization and poverty of those who mock Job.
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