Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.
Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,
and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,
for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.
`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;