It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws.
Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word.
Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya‛aqoḇ is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the slaughter-place like chalkstones that are beaten to dust – Ashĕrim and sun-pillars rise no more.
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Master, that we should not be condemned with the world.