1 And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish, for you shall have many experiences on the earth.
2 For you men shall put on more adornments than a woman, and more coloured garments than a maiden: in royalty and in splendour and in power, and in silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.
3 Therefore they shall be lacking in instruction and wisdom, and they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; and with all their esteem and their splendour, and in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
4 I have sworn unto you, you sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave, and a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman, even so sin has not been sent upon the earth, but man of himself has created it, and under a great curse they who commit it shall fall.
5 And barrenness has not been given to the woman, but on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
6 I have sworn unto you, you sinners, by the Qadosh Great One, that all your evil deeds are revealed in the shamayim, and that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
7 And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that you do not know, and that you do not see that every sin is recorded in the shamayim every day in the presence of the Most High.
8 From hereon you know that all your oppression with which you oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgment.
9 Woe to you, you fools, for through your folly you shall perish, and you transgress against the wise, and so goodness shall not be your portion!
10 And now, know that you are prepared for the day of destruction: therefore do not expect to live, you sinners, but you shall depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the Day of the great judgment, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits.
11 Woe to you, you obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood! From where have you good to eat and to drink and be filled? From all the good which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore you shall have no peace.
12 Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness! Why do you wait for good to happen unto yourselves? Know that you shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no compassion upon you.
13 Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you!
14 Woe to you who bring to naught the words of the righteous; for you shall have no expectancy of ḥai!
15 Woe to you who write down lying and wicked words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act wickedly towards neighbour! Therefore they shall have no peace but die a sudden death.”