Wisdom 4
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| 1 | Better it is to haue no children, and to haue vertue: for the memoriall thereof is immortal: because it is knowen with God and with men. |
| 2 | When it is present, men take example at it, and when it is gone they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for euer, hauing gotten the victorie, striuing for vndefiled rewards. |
| 3 | But the multiplying brood of the vngodly shall not thriue, nor take deepe rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation. |
| 4 | For though they flourish in branches for a time: yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the winde: and through the force of windes they shall be rooted out. |
| 5 | The vnperfect branches shall bee broken off, their fruit vnprofitable, not ripe to eate: yea meet for nothing. |
| 6 | For children begotten of vnlawfull beds, are witnesses of wickednes against their parents in their triall. |
| 7 | But though the righteous be preuented with death: yet shal he be in rest. |
| 8 | For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of yeeres. |
| 9 | But wisedome is the gray haire vnto men, & an vnspotted life is old age. |
| 10 | He pleased God, and was beloued of him: so that liuing amongst sinners, he was translated. |
| 11 | Yea, speedily was he taken away, lest that wickednes should alter his vnderstanding, or deceit beguile his soule. |
| 12 | For the bewitching of naughtines doth obscure things that are honest: and the wandring of concupiscence, doth vndermine the simple mind. |
| 13 | He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time. |
| 14 | For his soule pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away, from among the wicked. |
| 15 | This the people saw, and vnderstood it not: neither laid they vp this in their mindes, That his grace and mercie is with his Saints, and that he hath respect vnto his chosen. |
| 16 | Thus the righteous that is dead, shall condemne the vngodly, which are liuing, and youth that is soone perfected, the many yeeres and old age of the vnrighteous. |
| 17 | For they shall see the end of the wise, & shall not vnderstand what God in his counsell hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safetie. |
| 18 | They shal see him and despise him, but God shall laugh them to scorne, and they shal hereafter be a vile carkeis, and a reproch among the dead for euermore. |
| 19 | For he shall rend them, and cast them downe headlong, that they shalbe speechles: and he shal shake them from the foundation: and they shall bee vtterly laid waste, and be in sorow: and their memoriall shall perish. |
| 20 | And when they cast vp the accounts of their sinnes, they shall come with feare: and their owne iniquities shall conuince them to their face. |