5 But now that this has happened to you,

you have become exhausted.

It strikesi you, and you are dismayed.

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence,

and the integrity of your lifeB your hope?j

7 Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent?

Where have the honestC been destroyed?k

8 In my experience, those who plow injustice

and those who sow troublel reap the same.m