Job 8:11-19

New Century Version

¹¹ Papyrus plants cannot grow where there is no swamp,
    and reeds cannot grow tall without water.
¹² While they are still growing and not yet cut,
    they will dry up quicker than grass.
¹³ That is what will happen to those who forget God;
    the hope of the wicked will be gone.
¹⁴ What they hope in is easily broken;
    what they trust is like a spider’s web.
¹⁵ They lean on the spider’s web, but it breaks.
    They grab it, but it does not hold up.
¹⁶ They are like well-watered plants in the sunshine
    that spread their roots all through the garden.
¹⁷ They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks
    and look for a place among the stones.
¹⁸ But if a plant is torn from its place,
    then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
¹⁹ Now joy has gone away;
    other plants grow up from the same dirt.