⁸ and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

³⁵ `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning,

⁹ lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know that I loved thee.

¹ We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

²⁴ And Simon answering, said, `Beseech ye for me unto the Lord, that nothing may come upon me of the things ye have spoken.'

²⁴ and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

¹⁸ `See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'

²⁰ `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,

²¹ and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.

⁹ and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

²⁰ Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

¹⁹ The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

¹⁷ How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

⁵ Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

¹³ So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

¹⁴ Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.