17. For sinners' arms shall broken be;but God the just sustains.
18. God knows the just man's days, and stilltheir heritage remains.
19. They shall not be asham'd when theythe evil time do see;And when the days of famine are,they satisfy'd shall be.
20. But wicked men, and foes of God,as fat of lambs, decay;They shall consume, yea, into smokethey shall consume away.
21. The wicked borrows, but the sameagain he doth not pay;Whereas the righteous mercy shews,and gives his own away.
22. For such as blessed be of himthe earth inherit shall;And they that cursed are of himshall be destroyed all.
23. A good man's footsteps by the Lordare ordered aright;And in the way wherein he walkshe greatly doth delight.
24. Although he fall, yet shall he notbe cast down utterly;Because the Lord with his own handupholds him mightily.