8:4. Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:
8:5. Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:
8:6. If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:
8:7. In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly.
8:8. For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
8:9. (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow.)
8:10. And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
8:11. Can the rush be green without moisture? or sedge bush grow without water?
8:12. When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked u with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
8:13. Even so are the ways of all that forget God, an the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: