4. For truly my words are not lies; for I share perfect knowledge with thee.
5. Behold, God is mighty and does not despise; he is mighty in virtue of heart.
6. He shall not give life to the wicked; but to the poor he shall give their right.
7. He shall not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but with kings he shall place them on the throne for ever, and they shall be exalted.
8. And if they were bound in fetters and captive in cords of affliction,
9. then he shall show them their work and that their rebellions prevailed.
10. He opens their ear to instruction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
11. If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.
12. But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.
14. Their soul shall die in youth, and their life is among the male pagan cult prostitutes.
15. He shall deliver the poor from his poverty, and in affliction shall open their ears.
16. Likewise, he would have removed thee out of the mouth of anguish into a broad place where there is no distress and should have set thy table full of fatness.