For of a completely wicked person, who is a fool, it is stated: (Ḥab. 1:13) Why do you look upon traitors, and are silent, when the wicked-one swallows him who is more righteous than he? And the Masters of the Mishnah have established:lixBT Berakhot 7b ‘one who is relatively more righteous than him, he swallows, but a completely righteous person he does not swallow’. And because of him it is stated: (1 Sam. 2:6)... who takes down to she-ol and raises-up.
Woe to the soul when the spleen swallows it! Woe to Israel when they become swallowed-up by the mixed multitude, for about them it is stated: (Gen. 41:21)... and it was not known that they had entered them, and their appearance was as bad as at first...