Wisdom 12:22-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.
²⁴ For they went far astray on the paths of error,
accepting as gods those animals that even their enemies^[a] despised;
they were deceived like foolish infants.