Job 30:3-4 | TSK | e4.org | solitary or, dark as the night, fleeing into ; in former time Heb. yesternight

‏ Job 30:3-4

solitary or, dark as the night, Job 24:13-16

in former time Heb. yesternight

mallows The Hebrew malluach, in Arabic, malluch, and in Syriac mallucho, is probably the Lalima or Lalimos of the Greeks, and halimus of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.

juniper roots The Hebrew rothem, in Arabic, ratim, and in Spanish, retama, most probably signifies the genista or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.

for their meat 2Kgs 4:38-39; Amos 7:14; Luke 15:16