Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities. That affliction includes sickness in which the soul abhors all manner of food and the sufferers draw near to the gates of death. When human strength fails in such sickness, sufferers remember God and feel their need of divine help and of prayer. God is a merciful refuge in sickness as in health, and He never turns away from the soul that in sincerity seeks Him for help.
Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities. That affliction includes sickness in which the soul abhors all manner of food and the sufferers draw near to the gates of death. When human strength fails in such sickness, sufferers remember God and feel their need of divine help and of prayer. God is a merciful refuge in sickness as in health, and He never turns away from the soul that in sincerity seeks Him for help.