2. Humble your heart, and persevere. Incline your ear, and accept words of understanding. And you should not hurry away in the time of distress.
3. Endure steadfastly for God. Join yourself to God, and persevere, so that your life may increase in the very end.
4. Accept everything that will happened to you, and persevere in your sorrow, and have patience in your humiliation.
5. For gold and silver are tested in fire, yet truly, acceptable men are tested in the furnace of humiliation.
6. Believe God, and he will restore you to health. And straighten your way, and hope in him. Observe his fear, and grow old in it.
7. You who fear the Lord, wait for his mercy. And do not turn away from him, lest you fall.
8. You who fear the Lord, believe in him. And your reward will not be taken away.
9. You who fear the Lord, hope in him. And mercy will approach you, to your delight.
10. You who fear the Lord, love him. And your hearts will be illuminated.
11. My sons, consider the nations of men, and know that not one of them hoped in the Lord and was confounded.
12. For who has remained in his commandment and been abandoned? Or who has called upon him, and yet he despised him?
13. For God is upright and merciful, and he will forgive sins in the day of tribulation. And he is the Protector to all those who seek him in truth.