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 confidenceand 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 plough eviland those who sow trouble reap it.
9 At the breath of God they perish;at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 The lions may roar and growl,yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.