Job 8:17-19

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¹⁷ They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks
    and look for a place among the stones.
¹⁸ But if a plant is torn from its place,
    then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
¹⁹ Now ·joy has gone away [or it (the plant) dissolves on the way];
    other plants grow up from the same dirt.