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;