to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, 'even' all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Wherfor alle þe trees of watris schulen not be reisid in hir hiynesse, neþer schulen sette hir hiynesse among places ful of woode, and ful of boowis, and alle trees þat ben moistid of watris schulen not stonde in þe hiynesse of tho. For alle þei ben youun in to deth, to þe ferþest lond in þe myddis of þe sones of men, to hem þat goon doun in to þe lake.