12. While it is yet green and uncut,it withers quicker than any grass.
13. So is the end of everyone who forgets God,and so shall the hope of the godless perish.
14. His confidence is but a gossamer thread,his trust is a spider’s house.
15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand;he shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
16. He thrives in full sun,and over his garden his shoots go forth;
17. About a heap of stones his roots are entwined;among the rocks he takes hold.
18. Yet if one tears him from his place,it will disown him: “I have never seen you!”
19. There he lies rotting beside the road,and out of the soil another sprouts.
20. Behold, God will not cast away the upright;neither will he take the hand of the wicked.
21. Once more will he fill your mouth with laughterand your lips with rejoicing.