‘Teach me what I do not see. If I have done unrighteousness, I shall not do so again’?
And Yehuḏ
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
He sings to men and says, ‘I have sinned, and I have perverted what was right, and it did not profit me.’
For has anyone said to Ě
teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
Also keep Your servant back from presumptuous ones, Do not let them rule over me. Then shall I be perfect, and innocent of great transgression.
“Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you.
He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion.
“I have listened and heard – they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle.
“What more has Ephrayim to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.”
And Bilʽ
that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,