²⁷ It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

¹ Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

¹² So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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

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

²⁹ Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

³⁰ For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.

⁵ And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;

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

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.

⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

¹⁰ For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,