Barren with want and hunger, they gnawed in the wilderness: disfigured with calamity and misery.
Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caved of the earth.
The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing: and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
And they ate grass and barks of trees: and the root of junipers was their food.