⁵ I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

¹⁴ For God speaks once, Yes twice, though man pays no attention.

¹¹ God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this, That power belongs to God.

¹⁰ 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 is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

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

³¹ "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

³² Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

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

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.