25 Return to the master, and forsake sins.

Make your prayer before his face offend less.

26 Turn again to the Most High, and turn away from iniquity.[fn]

Greatly hate the abominable thing.

27 Who will give praise to the Most High in Haidais,

in place of the living who return thanks?

28 Thanksgiving perishes from the dead, as from one who doesn’t exist.

He who is in life and health will praise the master.

29 How great is the mercy of the master,

and his forgiveness to those who turn to him!

30 Because humans are not capable of everything,

because the son of man is not immortal.

31 What is brighter than the sun? Yet even this can be eclipsed.

So flesh and blood devise evil.

32 He looks upon the power of the height of heaven,

while all men are earth and ashes.