Job 8:8

If you want to seek God diligently,

make your supplication to the Almighty.

If you were pure and upright,

surely now he would awaken for you,

and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Though your beginning was small,

yet your latter end would greatly increase.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,

because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Shall they not teach you, tell you,

and utter words out of their heart?

“Can the papyrus grow up without mire?

Can the rushes grow without water?