'Folk' in the Bible

The shephanim are not a mighty folk,Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;The women come and make a fire with them.For they are not a people of understanding,Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

In these porticoes lay a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the stirring of the water;