16 when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,(A)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat(B) vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes;
    they go off into the wasteland and perish.

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16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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16 Which are dark because of the ice,
And into which the snow vanishes.
17 When it is warm, they cease to flow;
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18 The paths of their way turn aside,
They go nowhere and perish.

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