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.
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
