12. Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
13. Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
14. “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
16. when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
17. but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
18. Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.