ECCLESIASTICUS 16
Certainty of retribution
Do not say, 'I will hide from the Lord, who will remember me up there?
I shall certainly not be noticed among so many; what am I in the immensity of creation?
Why look, the sky and the heavens above the sky, the deep and the erth tremble at his visitation.
The mountains and the base of the earth together quail and tremble when he looks at them.
But who bothers his head about such things?
WHo attemps to understand the way he moves?
The storm wind itself is invisible, and most of what he does goes undetected.
'Who will report whether justice will be done? Who will be expecting it? The covenant is far away.'
Such are the thoughts of the man of little sense,
the rash misguided man who loves his illusions.
Certainty of retribution
Do not say, 'I will hide from the Lord, who will remember me up there?
I shall certainly not be noticed among so many; what am I in the immensity of creation?
Why look, the sky and the heavens above the sky, the deep and the erth tremble at his visitation.
The mountains and the base of the earth together quail and tremble when he looks at them.
But who bothers his head about such things?
WHo attemps to understand the way he moves?
The storm wind itself is invisible, and most of what he does goes undetected.
'Who will report whether justice will be done? Who will be expecting it? The covenant is far away.'
Such are the thoughts of the man of little sense,
the rash misguided man who loves his illusions.
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