1. "But now those who are younger than I am make fun of me. I wouldn't put even their parents with my sheep dogs!
2. Their strong hands couldn't give me any help. That's because their strength was gone.
3. They were weak because they were needy and hungry. They wandered through dry and empty deserts at night.
4. Among the bushes they gathered salty plants. They ate the roots of desert trees.
5. They were driven away from society. They were shouted at as if they were robbers.
6. They were forced to live in dry stream beds. They had to stay among rocks and in holes in the ground.
7. Like donkeys they cried out among the bushes. There they crowded together and hid.
8. They were so foolish that no one respected them. They were driven out of the land.
9. "Now their children laugh at me. They make fun of me with their songs.