11. Can the rush or papyrus grow up without marsh? Can the flag or reed grass grow without water?
12. While it is yet green, in flower, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb [when without water].
13. So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish.
14. For his confidence breaks, and [the object of] his trust is a spider's web.
15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not last.
16. He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
17. [Godless] his roots are wrapped about the [stone] heap, and see their way [promisingly] among the rocks.
18. But if [God] snatches him from his property, [then having passed into the hands of others] it [his property] will forget and deny him, [saying,] I have never seen you [before, as if ashamed of him–like his former friends].
19. See, this is the joy of going the way [of the ungodly]! And from the dust others will spring up [to take his place].
20. Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man.
21. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter [Job] and your lips with joyful shouting.
22. Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tents of the wicked shall be no more.