¹⁵ Achai (my brethren) have dealt deceitfully as a wadi, and as the torrents of wadis they vanish away;

¹⁶ Which are blackish muddy by reason of the kerakh (ice), and wherein the sheleg (snow) is melted.

¹⁷ What season they become warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they disappear from their makom.