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They plucked saltwort and scrub for food,
    and they ate the roots of the broom tree.[a]
Cast out from human society
    and berated as thieves and pursued,
they were forced to live on the sides of ravines,
    in holes in the ground, and in clefts of rock.

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  1. Job 30:4 The foods mentioned here (saltwort, scrub, and roots of the broom tree) were the fare of those in extreme poverty.