“ For has anyone said to God,‘ I have borne chastening; I will offend no more;

“有谁对神说：‘我受了责罚，不再犯罪。

“有谁对上帝说：‘我受了责罚，必不再犯罪；

“有谁对神说：‘我受了责罚，必不再犯罪；

“有谁对上帝说，‘我受了管教，不会再犯罪；

有人对神说：‘我忍受了管教，不再有败坏的行为了，

有誰對神說：我受了責罰，不再犯罪；

「有誰對上帝說：『我受了責罰，必不再犯罪；

「有誰對神說：『我受了責罰，必不再犯罪；

「有誰對上帝說，『我受了管教，不會再犯罪；

有人對神說：‘我忍受了管教，不再有敗壞的行為了，

『有誰對上帝說過：「我擔受了責罰，我不再有敗壞的行為了。

有誰謂上帝曰、我既受責、不再犯罪、

爾宜告上帝曰、我既受爾譴責、必不再蹈前愆、

爾當告天主曰、我既受責、不敢再犯、

“ Suppose someone says to God,‘ I am guilty but will offend no more.

“ Someone might say to God,‘ I’m guilty of sinning, but I won’t do it anymore.

“ For has anyone said to God,‘ I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;

“ Why don’t people say to God,‘ I have sinned, but I will sin no more’?

Suppose someone says to God,“ I have endured my punishment; I will no longer act wickedly.

“ For has anyone said to God,‘ I have endured punishment; I will not offend anymore;

For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

Suppose someone says to God,“ I have endured my punishment; I will no longer act wickedly.

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne[ chastisement], I will not offend[ any more]:

“ Has anyone said to God,‘ I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

“ For has any said to God,‘ I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

Then he looks at men and says,‘ I have sinned, and perverted what was right, And it did not profit me.’

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case And executes justice for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I will see His righteousness.

Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

Then Job answered the Lord and said:“ Behold, I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

However You are just in all that has befallen us; For You have dealt faithfully, But we have done wickedly.Neither our kings nor our princes, Our priests nor our fathers, Have kept Your law, Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, With which You testified against them.For they have not served You in their kingdom, Or in the many good things that You gave them, Or in the large and rich land which You set before them; Nor did they turn from their wicked works.“ Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, To eat its fruit and its bounty, Here we are, servants in it!And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us, Because of our sins; Also they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle At their pleasure; And we are in great distress.“ And because of all this, We make a sure covenant and write it; Our leaders, our Levites, and our priests seal it.”

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day— to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.“ O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.“ As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this,should we again break Your commandments, and join in marriage with the people committing these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?

“ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:‘ You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull; Restore me, and I will return, For You are the Lord my God.Surely, after my turning, I repented; And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt—