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.