²⁴ Teach me, and I myself^[a] will be silent;
and make me understand how I have gone astray.
²⁵ How painful are upright words!^[b]
But^[c] what does your reproof^[d] reprove?
²⁶ Do you intend to reprove my words^[e]
and consider the words of a desperate man as wind?
²⁷ Even over the orphan you would cast the lot,
and you would bargain over your friend.