de all these things, and know his mind, or
comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord
our God to anger.

Jdt 8:15
For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath
power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy
us before our enemies.

Jdt 8:16
Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not
as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of
man, that he should be wavering.

Jdt 8:17
Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him
to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.

Jdt 8:18
For there arose none in our age, neither is there any now in
these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among
us, which worship gods made with hands, as hath been aforetime.

Jdt 8:19
For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and
for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.

Jdt 8:20
But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will
not dispise us, nor any of our nation.

Jdt 8:21
For if we be taken so, all Judea shall lie waste, and our
sanctuary shall be spoiled; and he will require the profanation
thereof at our mouth.

Jdt 8:22
And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the
country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn
upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in
bondage; and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them
that possess us.

Jdt 8:23
For our servitude shall not be directed to favour: but the
Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour.

Jdt 8:24
Now therefore, O brethren, let us shew an example to our
brethren, because their hearts depend upon us, and the
sanctuary, and the house, and the altar, rest upon us.

Jdt 8:25
Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God, which trieth
us, even as he did our fathers.

Jdt 8:26
Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried
Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when
he kept the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.

Jdt 8:27
For he hath not tried us in the fire, as he did them, for the
examination of their hearts, neither hath he taken vengeance on
us: but the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him, to
admonish them.

Jdt 8:28
Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou
spoken with a good heart, and there is none that may gainsay thy
words.

Jdt 8:29
For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is