1. But now they mock me,men younger than I am,whose fathers I would have refused to putwith my sheep dogs.
2. What use to me was the strength of their hands?Their vigor had left them.
3. Emaciated from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,the desolate wasteland by night.
4. They plucked mallow among the shrubs,and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
5. They were expelled from human society;people shouted at them as if they were thieves.