¹And I answered and said: 'Who can understand, O Lord, Thy goodness? For it is incomprehensible.

²Or who can search into thy compassions, Which are infinite?

³Or who can comprehend Thy intelligence?

⁴Or who is able to recount the thoughts of Thy mind?

⁵Or who of those who are born can hope to come to those things, Unless he is one to whom thou art merciful and gracious?

⁶Because, if assuredly you did not have compassion on man, Those who are under Thy right hand, They could not come to those things, But those who are in the numbers named can be called.

⁷But if, indeed, we who exist know wherefore we have come, And submit ourselves to Him who brought us out of Egypt, We shall come again and remember those things which have passed, And shall rejoice regarding that which hath been.

⁸But if now we know not wherefore we have come, And recognize not the principate of Him who brought us up out of Egypt, We shall come again and seek after those things which have been now, And be grieved with pain because of those things which have befallen.' 76. Baruch bidden to instruct the People for forty days and then to hold himself ready for his Assumption on the Advent of the Messiah