3. ‘Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.Who else will put up security for me?
4. You have closed their minds to understanding;therefore you will not let them triumph.
5. If anyone denounces their friends for reward,the eyes of their children will fail.
6. ‘God has made me a byword to everyone,a man in whose face people spit.
7. My eyes have grown dim with grief;my whole frame is but a shadow.
8. The upright are appalled at this;the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9. Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,and those with clean hands will grow stronger.