Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;

I refuse to touch them;
they are like contaminated food.

You would still plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes would hate me [and refuse to cover my foul body].

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore declare what you know.

“Surely God will not listen to an empty cry [which lacks trust],
Nor will the Almighty regard it.

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.