| 1 | Love justice, you who judge the land. Think of the Lord in goodness and seek him in simplicity of heart. |
| 2 | For he is found by those who do not test him, yet he reveals himself to those who have faith in him. |
| 3 | For perverse thoughts separate from God. But his virtue, when it is tested, corrects the foolish. |
| 4 | For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subdued by sin. |
| 5 | For the holy spirit of instruction will flee from falsehood, and he will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he will not be reached when iniquity overcomes. |
| 6 | For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not release the evil speaker from his talk, because God is a witness of his temperament, and a true examiner of his heart, and an auditor of his words. |
| 7 | For the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and he who contains all things, retains knowledge of every voice. |
| 8 | Therefore, he who speaks unjust things cannot escape notice, nor will the chastising judgment pass him by. |
| 9 | For inquiry will be made into the thoughts of the impious, his conversation also will reach the hearing of God, to the chastising of his iniquities. |
| 10 | For the zealous ear hears all things, and the disturbance of complaining will not be hidden. |
| 11 | Therefore, keep yourselves from complaining, which benefits nothing, and refrain your tongue from slander, because secret conversation will not pass into nothingness, and the mouth that deceives kills the soul. |
| 12 | Do not court death by the error of your life, nor procure your destruction by the works of your hands, |
| 13 | because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the loss of the living. |
| 14 | For he created all things that they might exist, and he made the nations of the world curable, and there is no medicine of extermination in them, nor a kingdom of hell upon the earth. |
| 15 | For justice is perpetual and immortal. |
| 16 | But the impious, with hands and words, have called death to them, and, esteeming it a friend, they have fallen away and have made a covenant with death, because they deserved to take part in it. |
