1 “But now I am mocked by people younger than I,by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
2 A lot of good they are to me—those worn-out wretches!
3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger.They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
4 They pluck wild greens from among the bushesand eat from the roots of broom trees.
5 They are driven from human society,and people shout at them as if they were thieves.
6 So now they live in frightening ravines,in caves and among the rocks.
7 They sound like animals howling among the bushes,huddled together beneath the nettles.