18:029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in
the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
18:030:001 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.
18:030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in
whom old age was perished?
18:030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the
wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
18:030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their
meat.
18:030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them
as after a thief;)
18:030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth,
and in the rocks.
18:030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
gathered together.
18:030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they
were viler than the earth.
18:030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.