Douay Rheims Bible

Wisdom 2

The Wisdom of Solomon

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Chapter 3

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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 is 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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