⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.

³² But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened `us' as seemed good to them; but he for `our' profit, that `we' may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, `even the fruit' of righteousness.

⁹ Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, `so that' the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.