¹⁴ What they trust in is fragile^[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.^(A)
15 They lean on the web,^(B) but it gives way;
    they cling to it, but it does not hold.^(C)
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots^(D) over the garden;^(E)