4 The best of them is like a briar.The most decent person is sharper than thornbushes.The day you thought you would be punished has come.Now is the time you will be confused.
5 Don’t trust your neighbors.Don’t have confidence in ⌊your⌋ friends.Keep your mouth shut even when a woman is lying in your arms.
6 A son treats his father with contempt.A daughter rebels against her mother.A daughter-in-law rebels against her mother-in-law.People’s enemies are the members of their own families.
7 I will look to the Lord.I will wait for God to save me.I will wait for my God to listen to me.
8 Don’t laugh at me, my enemies.Although I’ve fallen, I will get up.Although I sit in the dark, the Lord is my light.
9 I have sinned against the Lord.So I will endure his furyuntil he takes up my cause and wins my case.He will bring me into the light,and I will see his victory.
10 Then my enemies will see this, and they will be covered with shame,because they asked me, “Where is the Lord your God?”Now I look at them.They are trampled like mud in the streets.