¹⁴ And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.

³ So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

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.

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

² Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.

¹⁸ Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

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

¹⁹ Many `are' the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare `are' with me.

³ Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

¹⁸ And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,