18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare
thyself to the search of their fathers:
18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our
days upon earth are a shadow:)
18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out
of their heart?
18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without
water?
18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it
withereth before any other herb.
18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's
hope shall perish:
18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a
spider's web.
18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall
hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in
his garden.
18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of
stones.