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.
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.
But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.