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OET (OET-RV) They pick mallow leaves off the wild bushes,
⇔ ≈and roots of broom trees have become their food.
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
מַלּ֣וּחַ
mallow
The word mallow describes a kind of flowering plant whose leaves are edible. Your language may have a name of its own for this plant that you could use in your translation. If your readers would not be familiar with the plant, you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “desert plants”
Note 2 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם
and,roots broom_tree to,food,their
Since Job is speaking of many roots, it may be more natural in your language to use the plural form of root. Alternate translation: “and the roots of broom trees are their bread”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
רְתָמִ֣ים
broom_tree
A broom tree is a kind of shrub that grows in desert areas. If your readers would not be familiar with this shrub, in your translation you could use the name of a comparable one that they would recognize, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “shrubs”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
לַחְמָֽם
to,food,their
Job is using one kind of food, bread, to mean food in general. While the roots of the broom tree are edible, they have a bitter taste, and only a desperate person would eat them. So there is a sense here that the people whom Job is describing eat these roots out of desperation. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “is their food” or “is all they have to eat”
OET (OET-RV) They pick mallow leaves off the wild bushes,
⇔ ≈and roots of broom trees have become their food.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.