⁵ I have said too much already.
    I have nothing more to say.”

¹¹ God has spoken plainly,
    and I have heard it many times:
Power, O God, belongs to you;

¹⁴ For God speaks again and again,
    though people do not recognize it.

¹⁸ I have heard Israel^[a] saying,
‘You disciplined me severely,
    like a calf that needs training for the yoke.
Turn me again to you and restore me,
    for you alone are the Lord my God.
¹⁹ I turned away from God,
    but then I was sorry.
I kicked myself for my stupidity!
    I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.’

³¹ “Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned,
    but I will sin no more’?
³² Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done—tell me.
    If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?

¹⁵ Even if I were right, I would have no defense.
    I could only plead for mercy.

³ If someone wanted to take God to court,^[a]
    would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?