¹⁸ Groups of traders turn away from their usual paths.
    They go off into the dry and empty land.
    And they die there.
¹⁹ Traders from Tema look for water.
    Traveling merchants from Sheba also hope to find it.
²⁰ They become troubled because they had expected to find some.
    But when they arrive at the stream beds,
    they don’t find any water at all.