But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes(A) you, and you are dismayed.
Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life[a] your hope?(B)
Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest[b] been destroyed?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6 Lit ways
  2. 4:7 Or the upright, or those with integrity

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

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(F)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(G)

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