| 1 | Son, when you apply yourself to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare your soul for temptation. |
| 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. |
| 14 | Woe to the duplicitous heart, and to the wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner who walks the earth by two ways! |
| 15 | Woe to the dissolute in heart, who do not trust God! For, as a result, they will not be protected by him. |
| 16 | Woe to those who have lost endurance, and who have abandoned upright ways, and who have turned aside to depraved ways! |
| 17 | And what will they do when the Lord begins to examine them? |
| 18 | Those who fear the Lord will not be unbelieving toward his Word. And those who love him will keep to his way. |
| 19 | Those who fear the Lord will seek the things that are well-pleasing to him. And those who love him will be filled with his law. |
| 20 | Those who fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and they will sanctify their souls in his sight. |
| 21 | Those who fear the Lord keep his commandments, and they will have patience even until his examination, |
| 22 | saying: "If we do not do penance, then we will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men." |
| 23 | For according to his greatness, so also is his mercy with him. |
