16. For your power is the beginning of justice, and, because you are Lord of all, you make yourself to be lenient to all.
17. For you reveal power to those who do not believe you to be perfect in power, and you expose the arrogance of those who do not know you.
18. Yet, you are the master of power, since you judge with tranquility, and since you administer us with great reverence; for it is close to you to be used whenever you will.
19. But you have taught your people, through such works, that they must be just and humane, and you have made your sons to be of good hope, because in judging you provide a place for repentance from sins.
20. For even if the enemies of your servants were deserving of death, you afflicted them with great attentiveness, providing a time and a place whereby they would be able to be changed from malice;