Wisdom 2:1

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:2

ENGBRENT: 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:

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:3

ENGBRENT: which being extinguished, our body shall be turned to ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

ENGLXXUP: Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned to ashes,And our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

Wisdom 2:4

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:5

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:6

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

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

Wisdom 2:7

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

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

Wisdom 2:8

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

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

Wisdom 2:9

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:10

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

ENGLXXUP: Let us oppress the poor righteous man,Let us not spare the widow,Nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

Wisdom 2:11

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

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

Wisdom 2:12

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:13

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

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

Wisdom 2:14

ENGBRENT: He was made to reprove our thoughts.

ENGLXXUP: He was made to reprove our thoughts.

Wisdom 2:15

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

ENGLXXUP: He is grievous unto us even to behold:For his life is not like other men’s,His ways are of another fashion.

Wisdom 2:16

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:17

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

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

Wisdom 2:18

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

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

Wisdom 2:19

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

ENGLXXUP: Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture,That we may know his meekness,And prove his patience.

Wisdom 2:20

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

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

Wisdom 2:21

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

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

Wisdom 2:22

ENGBRENT: 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.

ENGLXXUP: 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 2:23

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

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

Wisdom 2:24

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

ENGLXXUP: Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world:And they that are of his side do find it.

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