6. Is not your piety your confidence,and your blameless ways your hope?
7. Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished?And where were upright people ever destroyed?
8. Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquityand those who sow trouble reap the same.
9. By the breath of God they perish,and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10. There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion,but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11. The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12. “Now a word was secretly brought to me,and my ear caught a whisper of it.
13. In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the nightwhen a deep sleep falls on men,
14. a trembling gripped me – and a terror! – and made all my bones shake.
15. Then a breath of air passes by my face;it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
16. It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance;an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: