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Does not your piety give you confidence
    and the integrity of your life offer you hope?
Can you recall even one innocent person who perished?
    Where have the upright ever been destroyed?
“My experience has been that those who plow iniquity and sow trouble
    reap no other harvest.

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Should not your piety be your confidence(A)
    and your blameless(B) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(C)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(D)
As I have observed,(E) those who plow evil(F)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(G)

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