16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots(A) over the garden;(B)
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
    and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
    that place disowns(C) it and says, ‘I never saw you.’(D)
19 Surely its life withers(E) away,
    and[a] from the soil other plants grow.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that

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