It is all one; therefore I have said, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

If the scourge slays suddenly, He mocks at the despair of the innocent.

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

I have seen everything in the days of my vanity: There is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs life in his wickedness.

For all this I took to heart, in order to explain it: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows, whether by love or hatred, all that is before them.

All happens alike to everyone; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him who sacrifices, and to him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner. He who swears is as he who fears an oath.

So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.

then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust for the day of judgment, to be punished,