The particular is that he hope to Hashem that He will make his way straight before him according to His mercy and the abundance of His kindness, and save him from what is bad for him, and choose for him what is good and fitting for him; and this, by putting it into his heart to choose the good and reject the bad. For even in the works of his hands and in what he strives for, a person does not know to reject the bad and choose the good without help from G-d. Shlomo said, “There is a way that seems right before a man, but its end is the ways of death” (Mishlei 14:12); and he also said, “A man’s steps are from Hashem; how then can a person understand his way?” (Mishlei 20:24). And let him not despair of hoping to Hashem in all his deeds out of fear of his sins; for the providence of Hashem is always drawn to those who hope to Him by way of kindness, not to those who hope by way of reward. The pasuk says, “Behold, the eye of Hashem is on those who fear Him, on those who hope for His kindness” (Tehillim 33:18), and it makes clear that this is the particular hope; and therefore it joins to it, “to save their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine” (Tehillim 33:19).

And when many and bad troubles find him, let him hold fast to his integrity and take more courage to hope to Hashem. Let him think in his heart, and know and understand, that nothing holds Hashem back from granting his request and doing what he asks; for His ability is without end, and it is in His power to bring him out of trouble into relief according to His mercy and the abundance of His kindness, which are without end. And with this he will hope to Hashem all the more.