15. Will you pay attention and keep to the old way that wicked men trod [in Noah's time], [II Pet. 2:5.]
16. Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]?
17. They said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for or to us?
18. Yet He filled their houses with good [things]. But the counsel of the ungodly is far from me.
19. The righteous see it and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn [saying],
20. Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and that which remained to them the fire has consumed.
21. Acquaint now yourself with Him [agree with God and show yourself to be conformed to His will] and be at peace; by that [you shall prosper and great] good shall come to you.
22. Receive, I pray you, the law and instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. [Ps. 119:11.]
23. If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up; if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents,
24. If you lay gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brook [considering them of little worth],
25. And make the Almighty your gold and [the Lord] your precious silver treasure,