JOB 30:4 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἄλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἄλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ῥὶζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου.
(Hoi perikuklountes alima epi aʸⱪounti, hoitines alima aʸn autōn ta sita, atimoi de kai pefaulismenoi, endeʼeis pantos agathou, hoi kai ɽizas xulōn emassōnto hupo limou megalou. )

BrTr Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

ULT ones plucking mallow among the brush,
⇔ and the root of broom trees is their bread.

UST They look among bushes to find leaves that they can eat.
⇔ They pull up broom trees and eat their roots.

BSB They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.[fn]
⇔

OEB No OEB JOB 30:4 verse available

WEBBE They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
⇔ The roots of the broom tree are their food.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes,
⇔ and the root of the broom tree was their food.

LSV Those cropping mallows near a shrub,
And their food [is] root of broom trees.

FBV There they pick desert herbs and the leaves of bushes, and eat the roots of broom trees.

T4T They pulled up plants in the desert and ate them
⇔ and warmed themselves by burning the roots of broom trees.

LEB No LEB JOB book available

BBE They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

ASV They pluck salt-wort by the bushes;
⇔ And the roots of the broom are their food.

DRA And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

YLT Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.

Drby They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

RV They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.

SLT Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.

Wbstr Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

KJB-1769 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

KJB-1611 Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.
(Who cut up mallowes by the bushes, and Juniper roots for their meat.)

Bshps No Bshps JOB book available

Gnva They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
(They cut up nettels by the bushes, and the juniper roots was their meat. )

Cvdl No Cvdl JOB book available

Wycl No Wycl JOB book available

Luth No Luth JOB book available

ClVg Et mandebant herbas, et arborum cortices, et radix juniperorum erat cibus eorum:[fn]
(And mandebant grasss, and arborum cortices, and root yuniperorum was food their: )

30.4 Et mandebant herbas, etc. Herbas mandere, etc., usque ad sed intentionem rectam in eisdem operibus non tenere. Ibid. Quid enim per herbas, etc., usque ad quoniam soli avaritiæ deserviunt, radice juniperi replentur, et hoc est. Et radix juniperorum. Juniperi pro foliis quasi spinas habent, etc., usque ad qui plerumque sola in verbis suis exteriora lucra sectantur.

30.4 And mandebant grasss, etc. Herbas mandere, etc., until to but intentionem rectam in/into/on eisdem works not/no tenere. Ibid. What because through grasss, etc., until to since/because alone avaritiæ deserviunt, radice yuniperi replentur, and this it_is. And root yuniperorum. Yuniperi for foliis as_if spines they_have, etc., until to who plerumque alone in/into/on with_words to_his_own exteriora profits sectantur.

RP-GNT No RP-GNT JOB book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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_of 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]

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