12. Is my strength the strength of stones?Or is my flesh made of brass?
13. Is there no help within me?And is success banished from me?
14. “A despairing man should be shown kindness from his friend,or he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15. My brothers have acted deceitfully like a riverbed,like the streams of the riverbeds that run dry;
16. which are dark because of the ice,and into which the snow disappears.
17. In time they are scorched; they vanish!When it is hot, they disappear from their place.
18. The caravans of their way turn aside;they go nowhere, and they perish.
19. The caravans of Tema looked,the travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
20. They were disappointed because they were confident;they arrived there and were dismayed.