¹⁸ Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

²³ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

¹ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

¹² Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

⁵ And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.