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Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
so perishes the hope of the godless.
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What he trusts in is fragile;
what he relies on is a spider’s web.
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He leans on his web, but it gives way;
he clings to it, but it does not hold.
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He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots over the garden;
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it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
and looks for a place among the stones.
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But when it is torn from its spot,
that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
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Surely its life withers away,
and from the soil other plants grow.