⁵ Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

¹⁴ For God speaketh once, Yea twice, `though man' regardeth it not.

¹¹ God hath spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That power belongeth unto God.

¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

³ If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

³¹ For hath any said unto God, I have borne `chastisement', I will not offend `any more':

³² That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself `thus', Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed `to the yoke': turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: