13. Indeed, my help is not in me, and any success is driven from me.
14. “Loyal love should come for the afflicted from his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
15. My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,
16. which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow.
17. In time they dry up, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18. The paths of their way wind around; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.
19. The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.