15. Do you observe the old way which wicked men have trod,
16. who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
17. They said to Ěl, ‘Turn aside from us!’ And what did the Almighty do to them?
18. Yet He filled their houses with the good! (But the counsel of the wrong has been far from me).
19. The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent mock at them and say,
20. ‘Truly, our adversaries are cut off, and fire has consumed their excess.’
21. Be of service to Him, and be at peace; thereby blessing shall come to you.
22. Please accept the Torah from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty, you are built up. If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
24. and lay your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the wadis,
25. then the Almighty shall be your gold and your silver, strength to you.