⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

¹⁴ For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

¹¹ Once hath God spoken, twice I heard this, That `strength `is' with God.'

¹⁰ and the king of Israel sendeth unto the place of which the man of God spake to him, and warned him, and he is preserved there not once nor twice.

³ If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.

³¹ For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

³² Besides `that which' I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God.

¹⁹ For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;