mmortal.

1:16. But the wicked with works and words have called it to them: and
esteeming it a friend, have fallen away and have made a covenant with
it: because they are worthy to be of the part thereof.

Wisdom Chapter 2

The vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just,
especially the Son of God.

2:1. For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The
time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is
no remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell:

2:2. For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had
not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to
move our heart,

2:3. Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall
be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace
of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by
the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

2:4. And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any
remembrance of our works.

2:5. For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going
back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

2:6. Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present,
and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

2:7. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not
the flower of the time pass by us.

2:8. Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no
meadow escape our riot.

2:9. Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where
leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.

2:10. Let us oppress the poor just man, and not spare the widow, nor
honour the ancient grey hairs of the aged.

2:11. But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is
feeble is found to be nothing worth.

2:12. Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for
our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with
transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way
of life.

2:13. He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself
the son of God.

2:14. He is become a censurer of our thoughts.

2:15. He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like
other men's, and his ways are very different.

2:16. We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our
ways as fr