¹⁸ Even the little boys^(A) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.^(B)

¹² On my right^(A) the tribe^[a] attacks;
    they lay snares^(B) for my feet,^(C)
    they build their siege ramps against me.^(D)

30 “But now they mock me,^(A)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.^(B)

⁵ People will oppress each other—
    man against man, neighbor against neighbor.^(A)
The young will rise up against the old,
    the nobody against the honored.