12. While it is yet green, in flower, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb [when without water].
13. So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish.
14. For his confidence breaks, and [the object of] his trust is a spider's web.
15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not last.
16. He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
17. [Godless] his roots are wrapped about the [stone] heap, and see their way [promisingly] among the rocks.
18. But if [God] snatches him from his property, [then having passed into the hands of others] it [his property] will forget and deny him, [saying,] I have never seen you [before, as if ashamed of him–like his former friends].
19. See, this is the joy of going the way [of the ungodly]! And from the dust others will spring up [to take his place].
20. Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man.
21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter [Job] and your lips with joyful shouting.
22. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tents of the wicked shall be no more.