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Wisdom 4

  1. 1Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
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  2. 2When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it wears a crown, and triumphs for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
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  3. 3But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.
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  4. 4For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.
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  5. 5The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yes, meet for nothing.
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  6. 6For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
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  7. 7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.
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  8. 8For honorable age is not that which stands in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years.
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  9. 9But wisdom is the gray hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age.
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  10. 10He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated.
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  11. 11Yes speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit decieve his soul.
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  12. 12For the bewitching of naughtiness does obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence does undermine the simple mind.
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  13. 13He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:
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  14. 14For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
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  15. 15This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he has respect to his chosen.
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  16. 16Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.
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  17. 17For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel has decreed of him, and to what end the Lord has set him in safety.
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  18. 18They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.
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  19. 19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.
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  20. 20And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.
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