Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
