17Thus says the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God that teach you profitable things, that govern you in the way that you walkest.

18OH that you had hearkened to my commands: your peace had been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea,

19And your offspring had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.

1Blessed is the man who has not walked in the guidance of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whoever he shall do shall prosper.

16But to which shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

17Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

18For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He has a devil.

19The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say: Look a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.