¹⁷ "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;

⁵ and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;

⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁸ But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

⁹ Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

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

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

¹¹ My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:

¹² For whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; Even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.