Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,

yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.

my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;

For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,