17:23. Return to the Lord, and turn away from thy injustice, and greatly hate abomination.
17:24. And know the justices and judgments of God, and stand firm in the lot set before thee, and in prayer to the most high God.
17:25. Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.
Go to the side, etc. . .Fly from the side of Satan and sin, and join with the holy ones, that follow God and godliness.
17:26. Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.
17:27. Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.
17:28. How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him !
17:29. For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.
17:30. What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.
17:31. He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.