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“They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat;
    and roots of the broom shrub[a] for food.
Driven away from human company,
    they were shouted at as though they were thieves.
They lived in the most dangerous of ravines,
    in holes in the ground, and among rocks.

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Footnotes

  1. 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