1. But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
2. the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
3. They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
4. And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
5. They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.