Tobit 3:20 For your counsel is not within the ability of man.
21 But all who worship you are certain of this: that ones life, if it should be tested, shall be crowned, and if it should be in tribulation, shall be delivered, and if it should be corrected, shall be permitted to approach your mercy.
22 For you are not delighted with our perdition. For, after a storm, you create tranquility, and after tears and weeping, you pour out exultation.
23 May your name, O God of Israel, be blessed forever."
24 At that time, the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God.
Wisdom 4:14 Truly his soul was pleasing to God. Because of this, he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities, but the people see this and do not understand, nor do they place such things in their hearts:
15 that the grace and mercy of God is with his holy ones, and he watches over his elect.
16 But the just dead will condemn the impious living, and youth hastily completed results in a long unjust life.
17 For they will see the end of the wise, and will neither understand, nor imagine, that he is of God, and that therefore the Lord has safeguarded him.
18 For they will see and despise him, but the Lord will ridicule them.
19 And after this, they will fall without honor and with contempt among the dead forever. Seeing that they are puffed up and speechless, he will shatter them and will shake them from the foundations all the way to the top, to their utter desolation, and they will grieve and their remembrance will perish.
20 They will hurry with fear at the understanding of their sins, and their iniquities will bear witness against them.
Sirach 2:3 Endure steadfastly for God. Join yourself to God, and persevere, so that your life may increase in the very end.
4 Accept everything that will happened to you, and persevere in your sorrow, and have patience in your humiliation.
5 For gold and silver are tested in fire, yet truly, acceptable men are tested in the furnace of humiliation.
6 Believe God, and he will restore you to health. And straighten your way, and hope in him. Observe his fear, and grow old in it.
Psalms 63:7 They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,8 and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,
9 and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled;
10 and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts.
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