“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.
But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
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