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Wisdom 2

¹For they said in themselves, while not thinking straight, "Our lives are short and wearying, and there is no healing in the death of man, and nobody is known to have come back from the dead." ¹²Let us lie in ambush for the righteous person, because he is inconvenient to us, and he opposes himself to our works, and he accuses us of sins against the law, and ascribes to us sins against our upbringing, ¹³He professes to have knowledge of God, and names himself a son of the Lord. ¹⁴He has become for us a rebuke to our insights. Just seeing him is a burden, ¹⁵because his lifestyle is different from that of others, and his ways are different. ¹⁶We are regarded by him as unclean, and he keeps himself apart from our ways as from something filthy. He calls the final events (or the end) of the righteous blessed, and boasts that his father is God. ¹⁷Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s test him to see what the outcome will be. ¹⁸For if the righteous person is a son of God, let God assist him, and save him from the hand of those who stand against him. ¹⁹Let us inflict on him vituperation and torture, so that we might prove his graciousness, and so that we might test his forbearance. ²⁰Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for his help will be according to his own words. ²¹These things they reckon and they are deceived, because their evil has blinded them. ²²And they didn't know the mystery of God, nor did they hope in the reward of godliness, neither did they consider the reward of blameless souls.

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