2. For, unto what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom time was lost?
3. For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.
4. Who cut up mallows among 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. They dwelt in the clifts 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 sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.
9. And now I am their song, and I am their byword.