Wisdom 2

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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.	¹ For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, "Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades.
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:	² Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been; because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, and reason is a spark kindled by the beating of our hearts.
³ Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,	³ When it is extinguished, the body will turn to ashes, and the spirit will dissolve like empty air.
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.	⁴ Our name will be forgotten in time and no one will remember our works; our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun and overcome by its heat.
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.	⁵ For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
⁶ Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.	⁶ "Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist, and make use of the creation to the full as in youth.
⁷ Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:	⁷ Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no flower of spring pass by us.
⁸ Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:	⁸ Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
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.	⁹ Let none of us fail to share in our revelry, everywhere let us leave signs of enjoyment, because this is our portion, and this our lot.
¹⁰ Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.	¹⁰ Let us oppress the righteous poor man; let us not spare the widow nor regard the gray hairs of the aged.
¹¹ Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.	¹¹ But let our might be our law of right, for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
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.	¹² "Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.
¹³ He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.	¹³ He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.
¹⁴ He was made to reprove our thoughts.	¹⁴ He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
¹⁵ He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.	¹⁵ the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
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.	¹⁶ We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
¹⁷ Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.	¹⁷ Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
¹⁸ For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.	¹⁸ for if the righteous man is God's son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
¹⁹ Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.	¹⁹ Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance.
²⁰ Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.	²⁰ Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected."
²¹ Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.	²¹ Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them,
²² As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.	²² and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;
²³ For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.	²³ for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity,
²⁴ Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.	²⁴ but through the devil's envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it.

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