Wisdom of Solomon 2:1-24 of 19 (KJV)

Pray for God’s Wisdom and Understanding,
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

The Book of Wisdomor, Wisdom of Solomon.

{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.

{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:

{2:3} Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

{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.

{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 cometh again.

{2:6} Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

{2:7} Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:

{2:8} Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

{2:9} Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

{2:10} Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

{2:11} Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

{2:12} Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

{2:13} He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.

{2:14} He was made to reprove our thoughts.

{2:15} He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another fashion.

{2:16} We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

{2:17} Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.

{2:18} For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.

{2:19} Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.

{2:20} Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.

{2:21} Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.

{2:22} As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.

{2:23} For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.

{2:24} Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.

Thanking God for teaching us his Word, Amen.
End of Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 2/19.