He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
(1 Peter 3:12.) God does not forsake the godly, as Job implied, but 'establishes,' or makes them sit on the throne as kings (1 Samuel 2:8; Psalms 113:7-8). True of believers, in the highest sense, already in part (1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 1:6); hereafter fully (Revelation 5:10; Job 22:5).
And they are - that they may be.