.
Wis 4:20
And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall
come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to
their face.
Wis 5:1
Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before
the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of
his labours.
Wis 5:2
When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear,
and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far
beyond all that they looked for.
Wis 5:3
And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall
say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in
derision, and a proverb of reproach:
Wis 5:4
We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be
without honour:
Wis 5:5
How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is
among the saints!
Wis 5:6
Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light
of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of
righteousness rose not upon us.
Wis 5:7
We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and
destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay
no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
Wis 5:8
What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with
our vaunting brought us?
Wis 5:9
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post
that hasted by;
Wis 5:10
And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which
when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither
the pathway of the keel in the waves;
Wis 5:11
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no
token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten
with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise
and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no
sign where she went is to be found;
Wis 5:12
Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the
air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man
cannot know where it went through:
Wis 5:13
Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to
draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were
consumed in our own wickedness.
Wis 5:14
For the hope of the Godly is like dust that is blown away
with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the
storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with
a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that
tarrieth but a day.
Wis 5:15
But the righteous liv
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