{"id":1834,"date":"2014-11-03T02:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis02\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:26:00","slug":"wis02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis02\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of Solomon 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n<div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"><\/a> 2<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\"><\/a>1\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\"><\/a>2\u00a0<\/span>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:<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\"><\/a>3\u00a0<\/span>Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\"><\/a>4\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\"><\/a>5\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\"><\/a>6\u00a0<\/span>Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\"><\/a>7\u00a0<\/span>Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\"><\/a>8\u00a0<\/span>Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\"><\/a>9\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\"><\/a>10\u00a0<\/span>Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\"><\/a>11\u00a0<\/span>Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\"><\/a>12\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\"><\/a>13\u00a0<\/span>He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\"><\/a>14\u00a0<\/span>He was made to reprove our thoughts.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\"><\/a>15\u00a0<\/span>He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men\u2019s, his ways are of another fashion.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\"><\/a>16\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\"><\/a>17\u00a0<\/span>Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\"><\/a>18\u00a0<\/span>For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\"><\/a>19\u00a0<\/span>Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\"><\/a>20\u00a0<\/span>Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\"><\/a>21\u00a0<\/span>Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\"><\/a>22\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\"><\/a>23\u00a0<\/span>For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"p\"><span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\"><\/a>24\u00a0<\/span>Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.<\/div>\r\n<hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"chapters\">\r\n<h3>Wisdom of Solomon Chapters<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis01\">1<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis02\">2<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis03\">3<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis04\">4<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis05\">5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis06\">6<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis07\">7<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis08\">8<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis09\">9<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis10\">10<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis11\">11<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis12\">12<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis13\">13<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis14\">14<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis15\">15<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis16\">16<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis17\">17<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis18\">18<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wis19\">19<\/a><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 1\u00a0For 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. 2\u00a0For 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: 3\u00a0Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air, 4\u00a0And 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. 5\u00a0For 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. 6\u00a0Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. 7\u00a0Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: 8\u00a0Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered: 9\u00a0Let 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. 10\u00a0Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged. 11\u00a0Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocrypha","tag-wisdom-of-solomon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}