Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Even when righteous people are dead and gone, they put to shame the wicked people who live on after them. In their old age the wicked will be disgraced by young people who have already achieved perfection. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust. Wisdom 4:14For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts: Wisdom 4:15 That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen. Wisdom 4:17 For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. Wisdom 4:18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. Context Wisdom 4…15That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen. 16But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust. 17For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.… Cross References Wisdom 4:14 For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts: Wisdom 4:15 That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen. Wisdom 4:17 For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. Wisdom 4:18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. |