It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.
So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.