New Revised Standard Version
If the righteous are repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Contemporary English Version
If good people are rewarded here on this earth, all who are cruel and mean will surely be punished.

New American Bible
If the just are recompensed on the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish.

2 Samuel 7:14,15 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. . . .

2 Samuel 12:9-12 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

1 Kings 13:24 And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body.

Jeremiah 25:29 For behold I begin to bring evil on the city wherein my name is called upon: and shall you be as innocent and escape free? you shall not escape free: for I will call for the sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32 Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep. . . .

1 Peter 4:17,18 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? . . .