3 Indeed, you have instructed manyand have strengthened weak hands.
4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumblingand braced the knees that were buckling.
5 But now that this has happened to you,you have become exhausted.It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence,and the integrity of your life your hope?
7 Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?Where have the honest been destroyed?
8 In my experience, those who plow injusticeand those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 They perish at a single blast from Godand come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.