Job 30:1-8

1 “But now they ^alaugh at me,
men who are ^byounger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
^cmen whose ^dvigor is gone?
3 Through want and hard hunger
they ^egnaw ^fthe dry ground by night in ^gwaste and desolation;
4 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food. ^{▼▼Or warmth}
5 ⁱThey are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of ^jthe rocks.
7 Among the bushes they ^kbray;
under ^lthe nettles they huddle together.
8 A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.