¹⁴     A despondent person deserves kindness from his friend,
        even though he strays from the fear of the Highest One.
¹⁵     But you, my brothers, are unpredictable
        like an unexpected flood of the wadi that quickly rises and then falls,
¹⁶     That contain dark, muddy swirls of thawing ice
        that swell in the melting snow,