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        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]
        They are driven from the community.
            People shout at them in the same way they shout at thieves.

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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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