Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security!’

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.

If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.

His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

When people are brought low and you say ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;