New Revised Standard Version
As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,

Contemporary English Version
We are like streams and lakes after the water has gone;

New American Bible
As when the waters of a lake fail, or a stream shrivels and dries up,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;

As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up;

the flood

Job 6:15-18 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys. . . .

Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.