And he is reproved with pain on his bed, and with unceasing distress in his bones,
My bones have been pierced in me at night, and my gnawings never lie down.
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Master, that we should not be condemned with the world.
It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws.
“As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent.
Therefore by this the crookedness of Yaʽ
Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word.
Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah, And instruct out of Your Torah,
His bones shall be filled with his youth, but it lies down with him in the dust.
When I lie down, I say, ‘When am I going to rise, and the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease was severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek יהוה, but the physicians.
And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
“Thus you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so יהוה your Elohim disciplines you,
For I am plagued all day long, And my reproof is every morning.
And I broke the jaws of the perverse, and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Because for every matter there is a time and right-ruling, though the trouble of man is heavy upon him.