(Job 5:19) promises: "From six woes He shall save you, and in the seventh, evil shall not reach you." The midrash asks which six woes — and Solomon in Proverbs provides the list: "Six things the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him" (Proverbs 6:16-19). Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run swiftly to evil, a false witness who pours out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
David in the Psalms takes each of these and declares himself clear: "My heart is not haughty, my eyes are not lofty" (Psalm 131:1). "My soul is saved from deceitful lips and tongue" (Psalm 120:2). "Hands that shed innocent blood" — David responds that his hands were clean in the specific ways the accusation would have mattered. He builds his declaration of righteousness not in abstract terms but by specifically denying each item on God's list of abominations.
The man who is free from these six is free from the six corresponding woes — which the midrash maps precisely. Famine, the sword, slander, plague, wild beasts, the destroying angel — each matched to a corresponding sin. The righteous person who has cleared the six items on God's list walks through the world unafraid of the six forms of destruction. Not because they are protected by luck, but because the connection between moral life and cosmic safety is real, structural, written into the order of things.