16. which are dark with ice,and where the snow hides itself.
17. When they melt, they disappear;when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18. The caravans turn aside from their course;they go up into the waste and perish.
19. The caravans of Tema look,the travelers of Sheba hope.
20. They are ashamed because they were confident;they come there and are disappointed.
21. For you have now become nothing;you see my calamity and are afraid.
22. Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23. Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’?Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?
24. “Teach me, and I will be silent;make me understand how I have gone astray.
25. How forceful are upright words!But what does reproof from you reprove?