Wisdom 4:13-15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ Being perfected in a short time, they fulfilled long years;
¹⁴ for their souls were pleasing to the Lord,
therefore he took them quickly from the midst of wickedness.
¹⁵ Yet the peoples saw and did not understand,
or take such a thing to heart,
that God’s grace and mercy are with his elect,
and that he watches over his holy ones.