Wisdom of Solomon · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Wisdom of Solomon 3 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 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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1 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them.
2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:
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2 In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered a disaster,
3 And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.
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3 and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace.
4 And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.
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4 For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality.
5 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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5 Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself.
6 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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6 He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering.
7 The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.
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7 In the time of their visitation they will shine. They will run back and forth like sparks among stubble.
8 They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
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8 They will judge nations and have dominion over peoples. The Lord will reign over them forever.
9 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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9 Those who trust him will understand truth. The faithful will live with him in love, because grace and mercy are with his chosen ones.
10 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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10 But the ungodly will be punished even as their reasoning deserves, those who neglected righteousness and revolted from the Lord;
11 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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11 for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works are useless.
12 Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.
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12 Their wives are foolish and their children are wicked.
13 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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13 Their descendants are cursed. For the barren woman who is undefiled is happy, she who has not conceived in transgression. She will have fruit when God examines souls.
14 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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14 So is the eunuch which has done no lawless deed with his hands, nor imagined wicked things against the Lord; for a precious gift will be given to him for his faithfulness, and a delightful inheritance in the Lord’s sanctuary.
15 For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.
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15 For good labors have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail.
16 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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16 But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away.
17 And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.
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17 For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor.
18 And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.
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18 If they die young, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of judgment.
19 For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.
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19 For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Ye have read and heard, "As gold in the furnace hath He tried them, and received them as a burnt-offering." See what ye shall be among the treasures of God.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
For "the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God;" and if of the righteous, then those children's souls also; for neither are they wicked: and the souls too of sinners are straightway led away hence.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The divine Scripture likewise saith that the souls of the just are in God's hand and death cannot lay hold of them.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
Truly when the Scripture was speaking of persecution, it said, "Like gold in a furnace it hath proved them" (speaking of Martyrs being slain), "and as the holocaust's victim it hath received them." Hear how even the tongue of flatterers is of such sort: "The proving," he saith, "of silver and of gold is fire; but a man is proved …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… to those who sleep in the tomb, whom God hath not yet remembered: since the righteous are among the latter, of whom, even though God hath not yet called them to the resurrection, it is said, that their "souls are in the hands of God," that is, that "they dwell under the defence of the Most High; and shall abide …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)