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.
9 By the breath of God they perish,and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10 There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion,but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 “Now a word was secretly brought to me,and my ear caught a whisper of it.