¹⁰ If you falter in a time of trouble,
    how small is your strength!^(A)
11 Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.^(B)
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not he who weighs^(C) the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
    Will he not repay^(D) everyone according to what they have done?^(E)

³ By wisdom a house is built,^(A)
    and through understanding it is established;

¹⁶ for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again,
    but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.^(A)