Wisdom of Solomon 2:1

For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:2

For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart:

Wisdom of Solomon 2:3

Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

Wisdom of Solomon 2:4

And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:5

For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:6

Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:7

Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:



Wisdom of Solomon 2:8

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

Wisdom of Solomon 2:9

Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:10

Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:11

Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:12

Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:13

He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:14

He was made to reprove our thoughts.



Wisdom of Solomon 2:15

He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:16

We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:17

Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:18

For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:19

Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:20

Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:21

Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.



Wisdom of Solomon 2:22

As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:23

For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:24

Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.


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