When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. - Chinua Achebe

You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

The guilty suffers; the sufferer is guilty. As for the righteous, those whose arms are straight, they will always prosper!