Why hath the mighty power raised itself in evil?
2Its plotting taketh away the light from me all the time, and as sharp iron have they taken away power from me.
3I chose to descend into the chaos rather than to abide in the thirteenth aeon, the region of Righteousness.
4And they desired to lead me craftily, in order to consume my whole light.
5For this cause then will the Light take away their whole light, and also their whole matter will be made naught. And it will take away their light and not suffer them to abide in the thirteenth aeon, their dwelling-place, and will not have their name in the region of those who shall live.
6And the four-and-twenty emanations will see what hath befallen thee, O lion-faced power, and will be afraid and not be disobedient, but give the purification of their light.
7Why doth the mighty one boast himself in his wickedness?
8Thy tongue hath studied unrighteousness all the day long; as a sharp razor hast thou practised craft.
9Thou lovedst wickedness more than goodness; thou lovedst to speak unrighteousness more than righteousness.
10Thou lovedst all words of submerging and a crafty tongue.
11Wherefor will God bring thee to naught utterly, and will uproot thee and drag thee out from thy dwelling-place, and will root out thy root and cast it away from the living. (Selah.)
12The righteous will see and be afraid, and they will mock at him and say:
13Lo, a man who made not God for his helper, but trusted to his great riches and was mighty in his vanity.
14But I am as a fruit-bearing olive-tree in the house of God. I have trusted in the grace of God from all eternity.