⁶ For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

¹² For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.

⁷⁵ I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

¹ <Of David. Maschil.> Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

² Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

⁵ I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

²⁴ He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

¹¹ We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

⁷ It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?

⁸ But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.

²⁴ O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

⁷¹ It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

¹² Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

³⁰ If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

³¹ If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

³² Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

³³ But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith.

³⁴ I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

¹⁵ If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

⁵ Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

⁹ So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.