And spreading himself like a green bay-tree;
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not;
Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man,
And behold the upright,
For the end of that man is peace."—Ps. xxxvii. 35-37.: cf. the Prayer-Book version.
The prophet Isaiah declares:
"The righteous man is taken away because of the evil;
He shall go in peace, he shall rest in his bed;
Even the perfect man, he that walketh in the straight path."—Ch. lvii., Bp. Lowth's Trans.