God is witness of his reins, and a
true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
Wis 1:7
For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which
containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.
Wis 1:8
Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid:
neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.
Wis 1:9
For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the
ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for
the manifestation of his wicked deeds.
Wis 1:10
For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of
murmurings is not hid.
Wis 1:11
Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and
refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so
secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth
slayeth the soul.
Wis 1:12
Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon
yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
Wis 1:13
For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the
destruction of the living.
Wis 1:14
For he created all things, that they might have their being:
and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no
poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the
earth:
Wis 1:15
(For righteousness is immortal:)
Wis 1:16
But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them:
for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to
nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to
take part with it.
Wis 2:1
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.
Wis 2:2
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:
Wis 2:3
Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into
ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,
Wis 2:4
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.
Wis 2:5
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 co
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