14. You can’t sound the depths of a person’s heart or comprehend the thoughts of that person’s mind. How then will you search out God, who made all these things? How will you understand God’s mind and comprehend God’s thoughts?“No, brothers, don’t provoke the Lord our God,
15. even if he chooses not to help us in the next five days. God has the power to visit us in however many days he wishes or to destroy us in front of our enemies.
16. Don’t attempt to block the plans of the Lord our God. God isn’t like a human being who can be argued with, a person who can be threatened.
17. Therefore, while we’re waiting for his rescue, we should call upon him for help, and he will hear our voice if it pleases him.
18. There hasn’t been in our generation, nor is there today, a tribe, a family, a people, or a city among us who worships gods made with human hands as happened in times past.
19. This is the reason why our ancestors were handed over to the sword and to plunder, and they suffered greatly in the presence of our enemies.
20. But we have known no other gods except him.“Therefore, we hope that he won’t forget about us and our generation.