¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

44 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

⁵ They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

³³ For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

²³ Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

³² For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.