Job 8:11-19

Revised Standard Version

¹¹ “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
    Can reeds flourish where there is no water?
¹² While yet in flower and not cut down,
    they wither before any other plant.
¹³ Such are the paths of all who forget God;
    the hope of the godless man shall perish.
¹⁴ His confidence breaks in sunder,
    and his trust is a spider’s web.^[a]
15 He leans against his house, but it does not stand;
    he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
¹⁶ He thrives before the sun,
    and his shoots spread over his garden.
¹⁷ His roots twine about the stoneheap;
    he lives among the rocks.^[b]
18 If he is destroyed from his place,
    then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
¹⁹ Behold, this is the joy of his way;
    and out of the earth others will spring.