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.