When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.