12. Is my strength the strength of stones?Or is my flesh of bronze?
13. Isn’t it that I have no help in me,That wisdom is driven quite from me?
14. “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15. My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook,as the channel of brooks that pass away;
16. Which are black by reason of the ice,in which the snow hides itself.