18 Yes, it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom’s greatness turn you aside.
19 Will your cry for help sustain you without distress, or all the efforts of your strength?
20 You must not long for the night, to cut off people in their place.
21 Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
22 “Look, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, ‘You have done wrong’?
24 Remember that you should extol his work, of which people have sung.