2 Yes, how does the strength of their hands profit me?Their vigor has perished.
3 For want and faminethey gnawed the parched land;fleeing into the wilderness in former time, desolate and waste.
4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes,and juniper roots for their food.
5 They were driven out from among men;they shout after them as after a thief.
6 They had to dwell in the rocky riverbeds,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, yes, children of vile men;they were scourged from the earth.