Sefer ben Sirah — Chapter 17
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Their Ways are always before Him; they are not hidden from His eyes. 17 Over every nation He appointed a ruler, but Yisra’el is the portion of Yahuah. 19 All their works are like the sun before Him, and His eyes continually rest upon their Ways. 20 Their injustices are not hidden from Him, and all their sins are before Yahuah. 22 The righteous giving of an ish is like a seal with Him, and He preserves the favor of an Adam like the pupil of an eye. 23 Afterward He shall rise and repay them, returning their recompense upon their own heads. 24 Yet to those who turn back He gives a return, and He strengthens those whose endurance is failing. 25 Return to Yahuah and abandon sins; make supplication before His Face and diminish the stumbling-block. 26 Return to El Elyon and turn away from injustice, and greatly hate what is detestable. 27 Who shall praise El Elyon in Sheol in place of the living who render thanksgiving? 28 Thanksgiving perishes from the dead as from one who is not; the living and healthy shall praise Yahuah. 29 How great is the compassion of Yahuah and His forgiveness toward those who return to Him. 30 For all things cannot be within Adam, because a son of Adam is not immortal. 31 What is brighter than the sun? Yet even it is eclipsed; and flesh and blood devise evil. 32 He inspects the host of the height of heaven, but all sons of Adam are earth and ashes.