2  “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

3  Behold, you have instructed many,

and you have ^astrengthened the weak hands.

4  Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,

and you have ^amade firm the feeble knees.

5  But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;

it touches you, and you are dismayed.

6  ^bIs not your fear of God¹ your ^cconfidence,

and the integrity of your ways your hope?