⁵ “If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble^[a] in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets^(A) by^[b] the Jordan?
⁶ Your relatives, members of your own family—
    even they have betrayed you;
    they have raised a loud cry against you.^(B)
Do not trust them,
    though they speak well of you.^(C)

¹⁰ I hear many whispering,
    “Terror^(A) on every side!
    Denounce^(B) him! Let’s denounce him!”
All my friends^(C)
    are waiting for me to slip,^(D) saying,
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then we will prevail^(E) over him
    and take our revenge^(F) on him.”