Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness. Wisdom 5:11Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: Wisdom 5:12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: Wisdom 5:14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell: Wisdom 5:15 For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by. Context Wisdom 5…12Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: 13So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness. 14Such things as these the sinners said in hell:… Cross References Wisdom 5:11 Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: Wisdom 5:12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: Wisdom 5:14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell: Wisdom 5:15 For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by. |
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