THE WISDOME OF SOLOMON. (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV

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Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2 Original 1611 KJV Bible Scan

CHAP. II.

1 The wicked thinke this life short, 5 and of no other after this. 6 Therefore they will take their pleasure in this, 10 and conspire against the iust. 21 What that is which doth blind them.

¹ For the vngodly said, reasoning with themselues, but not aright: Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedie: neither was there any man knowen to haue returned from the graue.¹

² For wee are borne at all aduenture: & we shalbe heereafter as though we had neuer bene: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a litle sparke in the mouing of our heart.

³ Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft aire:³

⁴ And our name shalbe forgotten in time, and no man shall haue our works in remembrance, and our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloud: and shall be dispersed as a mist that is driuen away with the beames of the Sunne, and ouercome with the heat thereof.⁴

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 commeth againe.⁵

⁶ Come on therefore, let vs enioy the good things that are present: and let vs speedily vse the creatures like as in youth.⁶

⁷ Let vs fill our selues with costly wine, and ointments: and let no flower of the Spring passe by vs.

⁸ Let vs crowne our selues with Rose buds, before they be withered.

⁹ Let none of vs goe without his part of our voluptuousnesse: let vs leaue tokens of our ioyfulnesse in euery place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.⁹

¹⁰ Let vs oppresse the poore righteous man, let vs not spare the widow, nor reuerence the ancient gray haires of the aged.

¹¹ Let our strength bee the Lawe of iustice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

¹² Therefore let vs lye in wait for the righteous: because he is not for our turne, and he is cleane contrary to our doings: he vpbraideth vs with our offending the Law, and obiecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

¹³ Hee professeth to haue the knowledge of God: and hee calleth himselfe the childe of the Lord.

¹⁴ Hee was made to reprooue our thoughts.¹⁴

¹⁵ Hee is grieuous vnto vs euen to beholde: for his life is not like other mens, his waies are of another fashion.¹⁵

¹⁶ We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our wayes as from filthinesse: he pronounceth the end of the iust to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.¹⁶

¹⁷ Let vs see if his wordes be true: and let vs proue what shall happen in the end of him.

¹⁸ For if the iust man be the sonne of God, he will helpe him, and deliuer him from the hand of his enemies.¹⁸

¹⁹ Let vs examine him with despitefulnesse and torrture, that we may know his meekenesse, and prooue his patience.¹⁹

²⁰ Let vs condemne him with a shamefull death: for by his owne saying, he shall be respected.

²¹ Such things they did imagine, and were deceiued: for their owne wickednesse hath blinded them.

²² As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousnesse: nor discerned a reward for blamelesse soules.²²

²³ For God created man to bee immortall, and made him to be an image of his owne eternitie.²³

²⁴ Neuerthelesse through enuie of the deuill came death into the world: and they that doe holde of his side doe finde it.²⁴

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2

¹ Iob.7.1. , Math.22. 23. 1.cor.15 32.
³ Or, moist.
⁴ Or, oppressed.
⁵ 1.Chr.29. 15. , Or, he.
⁶ Isa.22. 13. and 56. 12. , Or, earnestly. , 1.Cor.15. 32.
⁹ Or, iolitie.
¹⁴ Iohn 7.7. ephes. 5. 13,14.
¹⁵ Isai.53.3.
¹⁶ Or, false coine.
¹⁸ Psal.22. 8, 9. matth. 27.43.
¹⁹ Iere.11. 19.
²² Greeke, preferred or esteemed the reward.
²³ Gen.1.26. 27.and 5.1. eccle.17.3.
²⁴ Gen.3. 12.

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