Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God, commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me wholly round about. And dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold, now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning I shall not be.
And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be confounded by him at his coming.
Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? All the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.