Wisdom 12:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²¹ with what strictness you have judged your children,
to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!
²² So while chastening us you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more,
so that, when we judge, we may meditate upon your goodness,
and when we are judged, we may expect mercy.

²³ Therefore those who lived unrighteously, in a life of folly,
you tormented through their own abominations.