1. “But now they mock me, those who are younger than I,whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
2. Moreover, the strength of their hands – what use was it to me?Men whose strength had perished;
3. gaunt with want and hunger,they would gnaw the parched land,in former time desolate and waste.
4. By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes,and the root of the broom tree was their food.
5. They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –