:14. For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out
of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not,
nor lay up such things in their hearts:

4:15. That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that
he hath respect to his chosen.

4:16. But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living,
and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

4:17. For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not
understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him
in safety.

4:18. They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall
laugh them to scorn.

4:19. And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach
among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and
speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be
utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall
perish.

4:20. They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their
iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.

Wisdom Chapter 5

The fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of
the just.

5:1. Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that
have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.

5:2. These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be
amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation,

5:3. Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of
spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a
parable of reproach.

5:4. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.

5:5. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their
lot is among the saints.

5:6. Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of
justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not
risen upon us.

5:7. We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and
have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not
known.

5:8. What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of
riches brought us?

5:9. All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post
that runneth on,

5:10. And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is
gone by, the trace cannot be found nor the path of its keel in the
waters:

5:11. Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the p