Wisdom 11:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ When they were being tested, even though it was a merciful discipline, they learned how wicked people were tortured when you judged them in anger. ¹⁰ You tested your people, as parents test their children, to warn them. But you judged their enemies like a stern king and condemned them. ¹¹ They suffered, whether they were near your people or far from them.