Therefore Joab and the people that was with him, began battle against men of Syria, which fled anon from his face.
Also Syrians of Damascus came, that it should bear help to Hadadezer, king of Zobah; and David smote of Syrians two and twenty thousand of men.
As smoke faileth, fail they; as wax floateth [or floweth] from the face of fire, so perish [the] sinners from the face of God.