4. Who pick mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
5. They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6. To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and hesitate not to spit in my face.
11. Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also cast off restraint before me.
12. Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.