²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, `saying', Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

¹⁰ Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek `their bread' out of their desolate places.

¹⁵ They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

¹² His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

²⁰ Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

² a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁸ Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

³ They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

⁴ They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

¹² when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.