Job 8:11-13

Good News Translation

¹¹ “Reeds can't grow where there is no water;
    they are never found outside a swamp.
¹² If the water dries up, they are the first to wither,
    while still too small to be cut and used.
¹³ Godless people are like those reeds;
    their hope is gone, once God is forgotten.