Happy the man who hopes in him.’ No need to explain that, is there? Whoever does not hope in the Lord is miserable. And who doesn't? Why, whoever hopes in himself. Sometimes it's even worse, my dear brothers; listen, sometimes men don't even want to hope in themselves, but in other men. ‘While Jack Robinson's safe, you can't touch me'— and Jack Robinson may even be dead already. Here in this town the man says ‘As long as So-and-so is safe and sound', and So-and-so is already dead somewhere else. And how ready people are to say this sort of thing, instead of saying ‘I trust in God, he won't let you harm me'; instead of saying ‘I trust in my God, even if he does let you touch something, everything even that belongs to me, he won't let you touch my soul'.