But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it strikes you, and you are troubled.
But stretch out Your hand, please, and strike all that he has – if he would not curse You to Your face!”
Show favour to me, show favour to me, O you my friends, for the hand of Eloah has struck me!
“But stretch out Your hand, please, and strike his bone and his flesh – if he would not curse You to Your face!”
Your words have raised up him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak knees.
To a despiser of friends: shame! For he is forsaking the fear of the Almighty.
I cried out to You, O יהוה ; And to יהוה I prayed:
If you falter in the day of distress, Your strength is small!
Therefore, having this service, even as we received compassion, we do not lose heart,
Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day.
For consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and faint in your lives.
And you have forgotten the appeal which speaks to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise the discipline of יהוה, nor faint when you are reproved by Him,