American Standard Version of 1901
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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me?Men in whom {Or, vigor}ripe age is perished.
They are gaunt with want and famine; {Or, They flee into the wilderness, into &c.}They gnaw the dry ground, {Or, which yesternight was Or, on the eve of}in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes;And the roots of the broom are {Or, to warm them}their food.
They are driven forth from the midst of men;They cry after them as after a thief;
So that they dwell in frightful valleys,In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Among the bushes they bray;Under the {Or, wild vetches}nettles they {Or, stretch themselves}are gathered together.
They are children of fools, yea, children of {Hebrew: men of no name.}base men;They {Or, are outcasts from the land}were scouraged out of the land.
Oh that I were as in the months of old,As in the days when God watched over me;
Even young children despise me;If I arise, they speak against me.
The young men saw me and hid themselves,And the aged rose up and stood;
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
{Or, Likewise...elder; yea, all of you one to another. Gird yourselves with humility}Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass?Or loweth the ox over his fodder?