They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they smitten and plagued like other men.
They are never in trouble; they aren’t weighed down like other people.
as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.