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)
As I have observed,(H) those who plow evil(I)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(J)
At the breath of God(K) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.(L)

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