10. and they will teach you; they will speak with you and will offer you the eloquence of their hearts.
11. Can the marsh plant live without moisture? Or can sedges grow without water?
12. When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
13. Just so are the ways of all who forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite will perish.
14. His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider's web.
15. He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
16. He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
17. His roots will crowd together over a heap of stones, and among the stones he will remain.
18. If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: "I do not know you."