His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

[As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up,

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?