3. Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
4. Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.
5. But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.
6. Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
7. Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?
8. In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
9. perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.
11. The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.
12. Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.