⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who `ever' perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

²⁰ Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

²² It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

⁷ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

¹⁵ All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth `his life' in his evil-doing.

¹ For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

² All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; `and' he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

⁴ And when the barbarians saw the `venomous' creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.