16. “For I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made.
17. “For the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I smote him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
18. “I have seen his ways, but now I heal him, and I lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners,