“What are you doing?” asked Nicola. “Making sure I know what I’m doing.” “Better late than never,” Lena murmured. - Jim C. Hines

Despite common belief, the goblin language did include a word for trust. It was derived from the word for trustworthy, which in the goblin tongue, was the same as the word for dead.

You mean you just let him go?"
"What did you want me to do?" I snapped. "Castrate him on the spot? Execute him?"
"Both. Both is good.

Earthmaker sounds like a useful person to have around," Jig said.
"Aye. He's one who rewards his followers. Over a hundred years I've offered up my sacrifices and prayed to him for guidance. Far be it from me to guess the mind of a god, but I'm thinking he'll not repay a century of service by letting us all die here."
Ryslind strolled to the dwarf's side. "Yet for all of your devotion, your magic is still limited to those powers your god grants you. To be so dependent on the whim of a deity would be disturbing, to say the least."
"It's called faith," Darnak snapped. "And it's a far cry safer than your wizardry. When's the last time you heard about a priest blowing himself up after trying a new spell and waving three fingers instead of four?