Job 8:11-13

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¹¹ Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh?
Will reeds flourish without water?^[a]
12 While it is in its flower and is not plucked,
yet^[b] it withers before^[c] all grass.
¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God;
and the hope of the godless will perish,