Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

Blessed is the man whom You correct, O YAH, and teach out of Your Law,

so I have been allotted months of futility, and restless nights have been appointed to me.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise from the long night? For I have had my fill of tossing until the twilight of the dawn.

that You should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

Has it been delightful to You that You oppress, that You despise the work of Your hands, and have shone on the counsel of the wicked?

You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation toward me; changes and war are with me.

Why has my pain been continual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,