Wisdom of Solomon 2:4-17
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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.
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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.
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6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.
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7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:
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8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:
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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.
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10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.
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11 Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.
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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.
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13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
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14 He was made to reprove our thoughts.
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15 He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
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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.
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17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.