American Standard Version (ASV):
Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
King James Version (KJV):
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
American Standard Version (ASV):
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
King James Version (KJV):
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
American Standard Version (ASV):
[ They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
King James Version (KJV):
[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
King James Version (KJV):
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
American Standard Version (ASV):
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.
King James Version (KJV):
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
American Standard Version (ASV):
They are driven forth from the midst [of men] ; They cry after them as after a thief;
King James Version (KJV):
They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
American Standard Version (ASV):
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
King James Version (KJV):
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
King James Version (KJV):
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
King James Version (KJV):
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
American Standard Version (ASV):
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
King James Version (KJV):
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.