11. And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the on-rush of overflowing waters?
12. Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?
13. And you say: "Well, what does God know?" and, "He judges, as if through a fog,"
14. and, "The clouds are his hiding-place," and, "He does not examine us closely," and, "He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens."
15. Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
16. These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
17. They said to God, "Withdraw from us," and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
18. though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.
19. The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
20. Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21. So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.
22. Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.