⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

²⁵ Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

²⁰ Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

²² It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

⁷ He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And `from' kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

¹⁵ The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

¹ But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

² The whole `is' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is' the good, so `is' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'