Wisdom 4:10–20
10Being found well-pleasing to God, someone was loved. While living among sinners he was transported.↗
11He was caught away, lest evil should change his understanding, or guile deceive his soul.↗
12For the fascination of wickedness obscures the things which are good, and the whirl of desire perverts an innocent mind.↗
13Being made perfect quickly, he filled a long time;↗
14for his soul was pleasing to the Lord. Therefore he hurried out of the midst of wickedness.↗
15But the peoples saw and didn’t understand, not considering this, that grace and mercy are with his chosen, and that he visits his holy ones;↗
16but a righteous man who is dead will condemn the ungodly who are living, and youth who is quickly perfected will condemn the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age.↗
17For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end, and won’t understand what the Lord planned for him, and why he safely kept him.↗
18They will see, and they will despise; but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this, they will become a dishonored carcass and a reproach among the dead forever;↗
19because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and will shake them from the foundations. They will lie utterly waste. They will be in anguish and their memory will perish.↗
20They will come with coward fear when their sins are counted. Their lawless deeds will convict them to their face.↗
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