Note 12 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
This quotation includes a portion of the second verse and all of the third, fourth, and fifth verses of the sixth chapter of the apocryphal book of Wisdom, and is as follows in English: “... Learn, ye that are judges of the ends of the earth.
Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations;
For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works, and search out your thoughts;
Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God.”