Moreover, what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor has gone from them.
“But now they mock me— those younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Haggard from want and hunger, they gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—