1. “But now those who are younger than I mock me,whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
2. Yes, how does the strength of their hands profit me?Their vigor has perished.
3. For want and faminethey gnawed the parched land;fleeing into the wilderness in former time, desolate and waste.
4. Who pluck mallow by the bushes,and juniper roots for their food.
5. They were driven out from among men;they shout after them as after a thief.
6. They had to dwell in the rocky riverbeds,in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they brayed;under the nettles they were gathered together.
8. They were children of fools, yes, children of vile men;they were scourged from the earth.