the meek are steady in God

"The meek man is like a ship that rides at anchor, movetur, sed non amovetur--'is moved, but not removed'. The storm moves it (the meek man is not a stock or stone under provocation), but does not remove it from its port. It is a grace that in reference to the temptations of affront and injury quenches the fiery darts of the wicked (as faith in reference to temptation in general). It is armor of proof against the spiteful and envenomed arrows of provocation, and is an impregnable wall to secure the peace of the soul there, where 'thief cannot break through and steal,' while the angry man lays all his comforts at the mercy of every wasp that will strike him."