6 Should not your piety be your confidence

and your blameless ways your hope?

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?

Where were the upright ever destroyed?

6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence,

Thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?

Or where were the righteous cut off?

6 Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence?

Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?

7 “Stop and think! Do the innocent die?

When have the upright been destroyed?

6 Is not your reverence your confidence?

And the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember now, who ever perished being innocent?

Or where were the upright ever cut off?

6 You should have confidence because you respect God;

you should have hope because you are innocent.

7 “Remember that the innocent will not die;

honest people will never be destroyed.

6 Is not thy fear of God thy confidence,

And the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?

Or where were the upright cut off?

6 Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

7 Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

6 Doesn’t your fear of God give you confidence 

and your lifetime of integrity give you hope? 

7 “Now think about this: 

Which innocent person ⸤ever⸥ died ⸤an untimely death⸥? 

Find me a decent person who has been destroyed. 

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence,

and the integrity of your life your hope?

7 Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?

Where have the honest been destroyed?

6 Is not your fear of God your confidence,

and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?

Or where were the upright cut off?

6 Is not your fear in God your confidence?

Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways?

7 “Think now, who has perished who is innocent?

Or where are the upright destroyed?

6 Shouldn’t you worship God and trust in him?

Shouldn’t your honest life give you hope?

7 “Here’s something to think about.

Have blameless people ever been wiped out?

Have honest people ever been completely destroyed?

6 “Is not your fear of God your confidence,

And the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember now, who ever perished being innocent?

Or where were the upright destroyed?