¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

³ So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

² You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful `brook', as waters that fail?

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

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.

¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

³ Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

¹⁸ And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,