THE LORD’S RESPONSE

5 If you have raced with runners

and they have worn you out,

how can you compete with horses?

If you stumbleE in a peaceful land,

what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?t

6 Even your brothers—your own father’s family—

even they were treacherous to you;u

even they have cried out loudly after you.v

Do not have confidence in them,

though they speak well of you.