- "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
- Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
- Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
- In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
- They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.
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- But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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