Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
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When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Alt
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living lon
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. M
It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’