⁸ The ·good [righteous] person is saved from ·trouble [distress];
it comes to the wicked instead.

¹⁸ Wicked people ·will suffer instead of [^Lare a ransom for] ·good [righteous] people,
and ·those who cannot be trusted [the unfaithful] will suffer instead of those ·who do right [with integrity/virtue].