^{1 Ref} But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

^{3 Ref} For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

^{4 Ref} Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

^{5 Ref} They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

^{6 Ref} To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

^{7 Ref} Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

^{8 Ref} They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

^{9 Ref} And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

^{10 Ref} They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

^{11 Ref} Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

^{12 Ref} Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.