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Isn’t your religion the source of[a] your confidence;
    the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?

Sinners don’t live long

Think! What innocent person has ever perished?
    When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?
As I’ve observed, those who plow sin
    and sow trouble will harvest it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:6 Heb lacks the source.

Should not your piety be your confidence(A)
    and your blameless(B) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(C)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(D)
As I have observed,(E) those who plow evil(F)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(G)

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