Remember, please: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? And where have the straight ones ever been cut off?
He does not keep the wrongdoer alive, but He gives right-ruling to the oppressed ones.
He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, and sovereigns on the throne, and seats them forever, and they are exalted.
See, Ěl does not cast away the perfect, neither hold the hand of evil-doers.
Nun I have been young, and now I am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Or his seed begging bread.
I have seen it all in my days of futility: There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong one living long in his evil.
And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man is certainly a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, still right-ruling does not allow to live.”
then יהוה knows how to rescue the reverent ones from trial and to keep the unrighteous unto the day of judgment, to be punished,