1. “But now they mock me— those younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2. Moreover, what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor has gone from them.
3. Haggard from want and hunger, they gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
4. In the brush they pluck salt herbs, and their food was from the root of the broom tree.