⁵ “If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble^[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets^(A) by^[b] the Jordan?

⁶ Your relatives, members of your own family—
    even they have betrayed you;
    they have raised a loud cry against you.^(A)
Do not trust them,
    though they speak well of you.^(B)