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“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended?
    But who can keep from speaking?(A)
See, you have instructed many;
    you have strengthened the weak hands.(B)
Your words have supported those who were stumbling,
    and you have made firm the feeble knees.(C)
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
    it touches you, and you are dismayed.(D)
Is not your fear of God your confidence
    and the integrity of your ways your hope?(E)

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“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
    But who can keep from speaking?(A)
Think how you have instructed many,(B)
    how you have strengthened feeble hands.(C)
Your words have supported those who stumbled;(D)
    you have strengthened faltering knees.(E)
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(F)
    it strikes(G) you, and you are dismayed.(H)
Should not your piety be your confidence(I)
    and your blameless(J) ways your hope?

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