13. Is there no help within me; has not success been banished from me?
14. “A despairing person should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
15. My brothers have acted deceptively, as a seasonal stream, as a torrential stream that overflows
16. when darkened by thawing ice, and obscured by snow,
17. but when they are scorched, they dry up, and in the heat, they vanish from their place.
18. Caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the wasteland and perish.