27. After seven days I was lying on the grass, and once again my thoughts began to trouble me.
28. Then I began to speak and said to God Most High,
29. “O Lord, you revealed yourself to your ancestors when they were travelling through the trackless, barren desert after they had left Egypt. You said to them,
30. ‘Listen to me, people of Israel.
31. I am giving you my Law. It will be like a seed sown among you that produces fruit, and it will be your crowning glory for ever.’
32. Our ancestors received the Law, but they disobeyed its commands. Yet the fruit of the Law was not destroyed — it could not be destroyed because it was yours.