²⁵ And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.

²³ Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

¹⁵ these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

¹³ this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

² preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

²⁰ Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

⁴ for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

¹⁶ A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

¹⁸ And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

²⁸ And `one' of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, `is' son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me.

²⁵ And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.

¹⁷ And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, `What `is' this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?

⁸ and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber,

⁹ and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

¹⁰ And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field -- the Levites and the singers, doing the work.

¹¹ And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station;

⁷ and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

⁸ and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that `is' in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

⁹ And I say, `Not good `is' the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

¹⁹ and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

¹³ and I have declared to him that I am judging his house -- to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,

¹⁷ `Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.