if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;
If you prepare your heart and stretch out your hands toward Him;
Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my plea,
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer; I seek mercy for my judgment.