11. “What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
12. Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
13. Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
14. “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
16. when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,