First, the state is given the authority to use the sword to «
punish evil doers» for the sake of reducing violence from running out of control (see this article).
Elihu's message is that God does use trouble to
punish evil doers, but God also brings trouble to good people to confirm them in goodness and to show them that goodness is essential even when there is no profit in it.
Not exact matches
Are we to blame God for
punishing evil -
doers and that he takes the blame for it?
Instead of the
evil -
doers leaving California to begin a new life in New York, one is fatally shot and the other eventually is
punished.