¹¹ As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,^(A)

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,^(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(B)

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?^(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.^(B)

¹⁵ But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,^(A)
    as the streams that overflow
¹⁶ when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,^(B)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat^(C) vanish from their channels.
¹⁸ Caravans turn aside from their routes;
    they go off into the wasteland and perish.