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15 If one leans on his house, it collapses.
    If one holds on to it, it will not support his weight.
16 He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine.
    The shoots spread over his garden.
17 Its roots weave through a pile of stones.
    They cling to a stone house.

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15 They lean on the web,(A) but it gives way;
    they cling to it, but it does not hold.(B)
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots(C) over the garden;(D)
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
    and looks for a place among the stones.

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