⁷ "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

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

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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

²² "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

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

⁷ He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, But with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

¹⁵ All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long 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 is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; 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, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

⁴ When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."