Although a sinner may be doing bad a hundred times and continuing a long time as he pleases, yet I am also aware that it will turn out well with those fearing the true God, because they were in fear of him.

On the other hand, righteous persons are not really put at a permanent disadvantage. True, others may make things hard for them. Nevertheless, a person’s having a wholesome regard for or “fear” of the Creator still works to his benefit. The righteous person preserves a clean conscience, finds contentment and satisfaction in doing what he knows to be right, and, if he dies as an approved servant of God, he has the hope of being raised from the dead. Thus, in the final analysis, everything ‘turns out well’ for those fearing Jehovah God.