1. The one who lives forevercreated everythingin a common fashion.
2. Only the Lord will be declared just.
4. He has given no one the powerto proclaim his works.Who can search out his majestic deeds?
5. Who will measurethe power of his greatness?Who will continue to recount his mercy?
6. It’s impossible to diminishor to increase these things,and it’s impossibleto search out the wonders of the Lord.
7. When people finish,then they are just beginning,and when they pause,then they are puzzled.
8. What are human beings,and what use are they?What’s good about them,and what’s evil about them?
9. The length of a person’s lifeis as much as one hundred years.
10. Like a drop of water from the seaor a grain of sand,so are a few years in the span of eternity.
11. Therefore, the Lord was patientwith them,and he poured out his mercy upon them.
12. He saw and knew that their endwas terrible;therefore, his willingness to be reconciled increased.
13. Neighbors display mercytoward each other,but the mercy of the Lord is for all beings:he corrects, instructs, teaches,and turns them back,as a shepherd does his flock.