[1] CONSIDER the fig and the olive,
[2] and Mount Sinai,
[3] and this land secure!
[4] Verily, We create man in the best conformation;
[5] and thereafter We reduce him to the lowest of low
[6] excepting only such as attain to faith and do good works: and theirs shall be a reward unending!
[7] What, then, [O man,] could henceforth cause thee to give the lie to this moral law?
[8] Is not God the most just of judges?