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

¹⁹ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

17 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.