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The Book of Wisdon
Chapter 3
The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.
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But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. |
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In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: |
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And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. |
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And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. |
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Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself. |
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As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. |
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The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. |
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They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. |
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They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect. |
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But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord. |
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For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable. |
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Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. |
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Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. |
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And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God. |
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For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth. |
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But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out. |
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And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour. |
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And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial. |
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For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race. |
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