12. While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
13. Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
14. What they trust in is fragile ; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
15. They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
16. They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
17. it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
18. But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19. Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
20. “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
22. Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”