¹⁹ And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones `is' enduring.

¹⁷ At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

¹² Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who `are' in Telassar?

¹³ Where `is' the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'

⁹ Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this `is' all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.

⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

¹ A Psalm of David, `To cause to remember.' Jehovah, in Thy wrath reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me.

² For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.

³ Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.

⁵ Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.

⁶ I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

⁷ For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

⁸ I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

¹¹ His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

⁴ If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

¹² And Asa is diseased -- in the thirty and ninth year of his reign -- in his feet, till his disease is excessive, and also in his disease he hath not sought Jehovah, but among physicians.

¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for `he is' in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth `some' of the people at that time.

⁵ and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,