14 For you⌃ shall not find the depth of the heart of man, and you⌃ shall not perceive the things that he thinks: and how shall you⌃ search out God, which has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.
15 For if he be not minded to help us within these five days, he has power to defend us in such time as he will, or to destroy us before the face of our enemies.
16 But do not you⌃ pledge the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he should be threatened; neither as the son of man, that he should be turned by entreaty.
17 Wherefore let us wait for the salvation that comes from him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.
18 For there arose none in our age, neither is there any of us today, tribe, or kindred, or family, or city, which worship gods made with hands, as it was in the former days;
19 for the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and fell with a great fall before our enemies.
20 But we know none other god beside him, wherefore we hope that he will not despise us, nor any of our race.