17. But thou art full of the judgments of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest it take thee away through chastisement: then a great ransom could not avail thee.
19. Will he esteem thy riches? Not gold, nor all the resources of strength!
20. Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.
21. Take heed, turn not to iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22. Lo, ·God is exalted in his power: who teacheth as he?
23. Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.
25. All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off.
26. Lo, ·God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27. For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
28. Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
29. But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the crashing of his pavilion?
30. Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31. For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.