¹¹ Papyrus plants cannot grow tall where there is no wet land.
    Reeds cannot grow tall without water.
¹² While they are still growing and not yet cut,
    they will dry up more quickly than grass.
¹³ That is what will happen to everyone who forgets God.
    The hope of the person without God will be gone.
¹⁴ What he trusts in is easily broken.
    It is as easily broken as a spider’s web.
¹⁵ He leans on the spider’s web, but it breaks.
    He holds on to it, but it does not hold him up.
¹⁶ He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine.
    The plant spreads its roots all through the garden.
¹⁷ It wraps its roots around a pile of rocks.
    And it looks for a place among the stones.
¹⁸ But the plant may be torn from its place.
    Then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
¹⁹ Then its life dries up.
    And other plants grow up from the dirt in its place.