1 Sedrach said to him, “It was by your will that Adam was deceived, my Master.
2 You commanded your angels to worship Adam, but he who was first among the angels disobeyed your order and did not worship him; and so you banished him, because he transgressed your commandment and did not come forth (to worship) the creation of your hands.
3 If you loved man, why did you not kill the devil, the artificer of all iniquity?
4 Who can fight against an invisible spirit?
5 He enters the hearts of men like a smoke and teaches them all kinds of sin.
6 He even fights against you, the immortal God, and so what can pitiful man do against him?
7 Yet have mercy, Master, and destroy punishment; otherwise receive me also with the sinners, for if you will not be merciful with the sinners, where are your mercies and where is your compassion, O Lord?”