Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

And they waited for me as [for] the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for [the] spring rain.

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender grass to spring forth?

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;

Then should the residue of thy life be as clear as the noon day, and spring forth as the morning.

may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed.

Behold, he will oppress a river, and he will not spring up: he will trust that Jordan burst forth into his mouth.

As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,