1But 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.⇆ compare2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?⇆ compare3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.⇆ compare4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.⇆ compare5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)⇆ compare6To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.⇆ compare7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.⇆ compare8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.⇆ compare9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.⇆ compare10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.⇆ compare11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.⇆ compare12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.⇆ compare13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.⇆ compare14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.⇆ compare15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.⇆ compare16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.⇆ compare17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.⇆ compare18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.⇆ compare19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.⇆ compare20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.⇆ compare21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.⇆ compare22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.⇆ compare23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.⇆ compare24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.⇆ compare25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?⇆ compare26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.⇆ compare27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.⇆ compare28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.⇆ compare29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.⇆ compare30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.⇆ compare31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.⇆ compare