If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,
“If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.