2 “If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient?But who can refrain from speaking?
3 Look, you have instructed many;you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled,and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged;it strikes you, and you are terrified.
6 Is not your piety your confidence,and your blameless ways your hope?
7 Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished?And where were upright people ever destroyed?
8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquityand those who sow trouble reap the same.