Wisdom 4:19
Good News Translation
God will throw them to the ground and make them speechless. Like buildings shaken from their foundations, they will be reduced to piles of ruins. They will be in torment. People will soon forget all about them.

New Revised Standard Version
because he will dash them speechless to the ground, and shake them from the foundations; they will be left utterly dry and barren, and they will suffer anguish, and the memory of them will perish.

Contemporary English Version
God will throw them speechless to the ground, and they will be like buildings that crumble. They will suffer and rot, then be forgotten.

New American Bible
And they shall afterward become dishonored corpses and an unceasing mockery among the dead. For he shall strike them down speechless and prostrate and rock them to their foundations; They shall be utterly laid waste and shall be in grief and their memory shall perish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

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.

Wisdom 4:20
They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.

Wisdom 5:1
Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.

Context
Wisdom 4
18They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. 19And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish. 20They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.…
Cross References
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.

Wisdom 4:20
They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.

Wisdom 5:1
Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 4:18
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