19. And afterward, it will rise up and repay them their reward, each one upon his head, and it will return to the hidden places of the earth.
20. Now, to the repentant, he has given the way of justice, and he has strengthened those lacking in patience, and he has fastened them to a destiny of truth.
21. Convert to the Lord, and relinquish your sins.
22. Make supplication before the face of the Lord, and diminish your offenses.
23. Return to the Lord, and turn away from your injustice, and have immense hatred for abomination.
24. And acknowledge the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the circumstances set before you and in prayer to the most high God.
25. Go to the side of the holy generation, to those who live in order to give praise to God.
26. You should not linger in the error of the impious; confess before death. Confession perishes from the dead as if it were nothing.
27. Confess while living; you should give thanks while you are still alive and healthy. And you should praise God and glory in his compassion.
28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness, for those who convert to him!
29. For not all things can be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and because they are pleased by the emptiness of malice.
30. What is brighter than the sun? Yet this will fail. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood has invented? And this will be reproved.
31. He beholds the power of the heights of heaven. And all men are earth and ashes.