14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16. Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!
17. Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!
18. Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19. The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent deride them.
20. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee.
22. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23. If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27. Thou shalt make thy prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29. When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is exaltation; and he shall save the humble person.
30. He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.