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

²³ He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.

¹ "But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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

⁵ The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.