1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3. For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5. They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6. To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.