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.
6. They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.