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The poor are pushed off the path;
    the needy must hide together for safety.
Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,
    the poor must spend all their time looking for food,
    searching even in the desert for food for their children.
They harvest a field they do not own,
    and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

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They thrust the needy(A) from the path
    and force all the poor(B) of the land into hiding.(C)
Like wild donkeys(D) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor(E) of foraging food;
    the wasteland(F) provides food for their children.
They gather fodder(G) in the fields
    and glean in the vineyards(H) of the wicked.(I)

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