1. The Lord’s word came to me:
2. Human one, how is the vine’s wood better than the wood of all the trees in the forest?
3. Can you make anything useful from its wood? Can you make a peg from it and hang objects on it?
4. If not, can it be used as firewood? Fire would consume its two ends, but its middle part would only get charred. So is it useful for anything?
5. Look, even when it was whole, it was worthless. Now that the fire has consumed it, and it is charred, it’s even more useless.