We have shown them plunged in direst misfortunes, and is there not force in the question when we ask if their months of penury and suffering were the works of the God of Mercy and Righteousness?
It cannot be.

The innocent do not suffer by the hands of God, while the guilty revel in all the wealth and affluence that this earth bestows.

How many men are there who live in ease and comfort, while their souls are burdened with sins?
The hypocrite, the liar, the thief, the murderer; all, and by hundreds they can be counted, appear to the world "A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal," but in whose souls the fires of hell rage with remorseless fury.

But their afflictions are not known to man.

The eyes of the world gaze not on them, when the mind is racked by the conflict of sin.