Komentarz do Psalmów 11:5

The Lord tries the righteous And if, because I suffer and am pursued by you, you boast, saying (below 71:11), “God has forsaken him,” it is not so, but so is the custom of the Holy One, blessed be He, to chasten and to test the righteous but not the wicked. This flax workeras long as he knows that his flax is of high quality, he beats it, but when it is not of high quality, he crushes it only a little because it breaks.

His soul hates He lays away the recompense for his iniquities for the “long world,” and then He showers [punishment] upon them [sic] in Gehinnom.