2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me,in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary;fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste:
4 who cut up mallows by the bushes,and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men,(they cried after them as after a thief,)
6 to dwell in the cliffs 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.