Is it because of your fear of Him that He reproves you, or enters into right-ruling with you?
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
Is it for your [reverential] fear of Him that He [thus] reproves you, that He enters with you into judgment?
Is it for thy fear of him that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?
Does he rebuke you for your piety, bring you in for judgment?
Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment?
Yet on such a one You open Your eyes, and bring me to right-ruling with Yourself!
O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man with his neighbour!
fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, so that you know there is a judgment.”
Is it a delight to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or gain, that you make your ways perfect?
For He sets a man no stated time to appear before Ěl in right-ruling.
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that You set a guard over me?
If I speak of power? Look, He is potent. And if of right-ruling? Who sets me a time?
For He is not a man as I am that I answer Him, and we come together into right-ruling.
And do not enter into right-ruling with Your servant, For before You no one living is in the right.
“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.
At Your rebuke, O Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, Both the rider and horse lay stunned.
It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face.
For Elohim shall bring every work into right-ruling, including all that is hidden, whether good or whether evil.
“As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent.