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Is not your piety a source of confidence,
    and your integrity of life your hope?
Reflect now, what innocent person perishes?(A)
    Where are the upright destroyed?
As I see it, those who plow mischief
    and sow trouble will reap them.

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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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