⁵ But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;^(A)
    it strikes^(B) you, and you are dismayed.^(C)
6 Should not your piety be your confidence^(D)
    and your blameless^(E) ways your hope?

⁷ “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?^(F)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?^(G)
8 As I have observed,^(H) those who plow evil^(I)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.^(J)
9 At the breath of God^(K) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.^(L)