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Only Evil People Suffer

“Now think about this:
    Which innocent person ever died an untimely death?
    Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.
Whenever I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery,
    they gathered its harvest.
        Eloah destroys them with his breath
            and kills them with a blast of his anger.

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“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(A)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(B)
As I have observed,(C) those who plow evil(D)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(E)
At the breath of God(F) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.(G)

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