Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
Before I am afflicted, I — I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
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,
and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it — it doth yield.