3. Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6. Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7. “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8. As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
9. At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.