6. For you are the Lord our God, and we will praise you, O Lord.
7. And for this reason, you have imparted your fear into our hearts, and also, so that we may call upon your name and may praise you in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before you.
8. And, behold, we are still in our captivity on this day, where you have scattered us into disgrace, and into slander, and into sin, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who withdrew from you, O Lord our God.
9. Listen, O Israel, to the commandments of life! Pay attention, so that you may learn prudence!
10. How is it, O Israel, that you are in the land of your enemies,
11. that you have grown old in a foreign land, that you are defiled with the dead, that you are regarded as among those who are descending into hell?
12. You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
13. For if you had walked in the way of God, you would certainly have lived in everlasting peace.
14. Learn where prudence is, where virtue is, where understanding is, so that you may know at the same time where long life and prosperity are, where the light of the eyes and peace are.
15. Who has discovered its place? And who has entered its treasure chamber?
16. Where are the leaders of the peoples, and those who rule over the beasts that are upon the earth,