2 “If one attempts a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled, and strengthened buckling knees.
5 Yet now it has come to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.