15. Achai (my brethren) have dealt deceitfully as a wadi, and as the torrents of wadis they vanish away;
16. Which are blackish muddy by reason of the kerakh (ice), and wherein the sheleg (snow) is melted.
17. What season they become warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they disappear from their makom.
18. The paths of their derech wind about; they go up to tohu [Gn 1:2], and perish.
19. The caravans of Tema looked for them; the halichot (traveling companies) of Sheva hoped for them.
20. They were disappointed because of their bitachon; they come there and are confounded.
21. For now ye are become such; ye see my chatat (casting down), and are afraid.
22. Did I say, Bring unto me? Or, Give a present for me of your ko'ach (power, wealth)?
23. Or, Deliver me from the yad tzar (hand of the enemy, oppressor)? Or, Redeem me with a ransom from the yad of the tyrants?
24. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, and cause me to have binah wherein I have erred.
25. How forcible are the imrei yosher (words of rectitude)! But what doth your hokhiach (reproof) reprove?