12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
17. Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
29. For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
30. The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.