¹⁹ Like a broken tooth or a lame foot
    is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.

¹⁴ “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend^(A)
    forsakes the fear of the Almighty.^(B)
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,^(C)
    as the streams that overflow
¹⁶ when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,^(D)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat^(E) vanish from their channels.
¹⁸ Caravans turn aside from their routes;
    they go off into the wasteland and perish.
¹⁹ The caravans of Tema^(F) look for water,
    the traveling merchants of Sheba^(G) look in hope.
²⁰ They are distressed, because they had been confident;
    they arrive there, only to be disappointed.^(H)