No. If the water dries up,\par then they will also be dry.\par They will be too small to cut and use.\par
Bildad said,\par “Can papyrus {\cf2\super [16]} grow tall on a dry land?\par Can reeds grow without water?\par
People who forget God\par are like those reeds.\par The person who forgets God,\par has no hope.\par
All the rivers will smell very bad. {\cf2\super [188]} The canals in Egypt will become dry and the water will be gone. All the water plants will rot.
Those people are like a bush in a desert.\par That bush is in a land where no people live.\par That bush is in a hot and dry land.\par That bush is in a bad soil.\par That bush does not know\par about the good things that God can give.\par
And what is the seed that fell on rocky ground? That seed is like the person that hears the teaching and quickly and gladly accepts that teaching.
The Scripture {\cf2\super [12]} says,