11. “Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?
12. When still in bloom and uncut, it withers more quickly than other grass.
13. Such are the ways of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes—
14. whose confidence is snapped off, his trust is a spider’s web.
15. He leans against his house but it does not stand, He holds fast to it, but it does not hold up.
16. He is a well-watered plant in the sun, spreading his shoots over his garden;
17. he entwines his roots around a heap of stones, and looks for a place between the rocks.
18. If he is uprooted from his place, it denies him saying, ‘I never saw you.’
19. Such is his joyous course, and from the earth others spring up.
20. Surely God does not spurn the blameless or strengthen the hand of evildoers.