⁷Blessed is the man who trusts in Hashem, and Hashem will be his security.

⁸He will be like a tree planted by water, which sends out its roots along a stream. It will not notice when the heat comes, and its leaves will stay fresh; in a year of drought it will not worry, and it will not stop bearing fruit.

⁵Trust in Hashem with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

⁶Know Him in all your ways, and He will make your paths straight.

On trust in G-d alone.

Its benefits for him in matters of Torah are these:

One of them is peace of mind, and trusting in his G-d as a servant must trust in his master. For if a person does not trust in G-d, he will trust in something else; and whoever trusts in something other than Hashem, G-d removes His providence from him and leaves him in the hands of the one he trusted.

He will be like the one of whom it is said, “For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the source of living waters, to dig for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns” (Yirmiyahu 2:13). And it says, “They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass” (Tehillim 106:20). And the pasuk says, “Blessed is the man who trusts in Hashem, and Hashem will be his security” (Yirmiyahu 17:7). And it says, “Fortunate is the man who has made Hashem his trust, and has not turned to the arrogant or to those who stray after lies” (Tehillim 40:5). And it says, “Cursed is the man who trusts in people and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from Hashem” (Yirmiyahu 17:5).