Wisdom 12:22-24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 Therefore to give us a lesson you punish our enemies with measured deliberation
so that we may think earnestly of your goodness when we judge,
and, when being judged, we may look for mercy.
Second Example Resumed
23 Hence those unrighteous who lived a life of folly,
you tormented through their own abominations.(A)
24 For they went far astray in the paths of error,
taking for gods the worthless and disgusting among beasts,
being deceived like senseless infants.(B)
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