Wisdom 12:22-24

Common English Bible

²² While you are disciplining us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times as much, in order that we may keep your goodness in mind when we ourselves are passing judgment. And you teach us that when we ourselves are judged, we should expect your mercy.

²³ It was for this reason that you tortured those who lived foolish and unjust lives through their own disgusting offenses. ²⁴ They wandered far even from the normal ways in which people err! They took horrible things to be gods, the worst forms of animal life. They were deceived like foolish children.