In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them.
Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;
and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;