בִּלְעֲדֵ֣י אֶ֭חֱזֶה אַתָּ֣ה הֹרֵ֑נִי אִֽם־עָ֥וֶל פָּ֝עַ֗לְתִּי לֹ֣א אֹסִֽיף׃
“Selain apa yang dapat kulihat sendiri, ajarlah aku; jika aku telah berbuat curang, aku tidak akan mengulanginya lagi.”
Duties of the Heart
4. The resolution not to repeat [the sin] reflects his understanding of the wickedness of his deed and the gravity of his sin, as written "If I have committed iniquity, I will do no more" (Iyov 34:32), and "Assyria shall not save us... nor will we say any longer to the work of our hands, you are our gods" (Hoshea 14:4). Of one who acts in the opposite manner, it is written: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to doing evil" (Yirmiya 13:23). And similarly we can observe among human beings that when one who wronged his fellow takes on himself not to wrong him again, and demonstrates that he regrets and abandons his sin and confesses it, this will complete the grounds which lead to forgiveness and removal of his iniquity, and cancelling the punishment from him.
Duties of the Heart
(5) That one abandons the evil, a permanent abandonment - to not enter in his heart to repeat it. He should resolve in his heart and say in speech what the pious man said: "if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more" (Iyov 34:32).