Wisdom of Solomon · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Wisdom of Solomon 5 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.
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1 Then the righteous man will stand in great boldness before the face of those who afflicted him, and those who make his labors of no account.
2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation.
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2 When they see him, they will be troubled with terrible fear, and will be amazed at the marvel of salvation.
3 Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach.
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3 They will speak among themselves repenting, and for distress of spirit they will groan, “This was he whom we used to hold in derision, as a parable of reproach.
4 We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.
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4 We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honor.
5 Behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
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5 How was he counted among sons of God? How is his lot among saints?
6 Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.
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6 Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us. The sun didn’t rise for us.
7 We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known.
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7 We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction. We traveled through trackless deserts, but we didn’t know the Lord’s way.
8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?
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8 What did our arrogance profit us? What good have riches and boasting brought us?
9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on,
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9 Those things all passed away as a shadow, like a rumor that runs by,
10 And as a ship that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found, nor the path of its keel in the waters:
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10 like a ship passing through the billowy water, which, when it has gone by, there is no trace to be found, no pathway of its keel in the waves.
11 Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight; she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way:
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11 Or it is like when a bird flies through the air, no evidence of its passage is found, but the light wind, lashed with the stroke of its pinions, and torn apart with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through. Afterwards no sign of its coming remains.
12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air presently cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:
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12 Or it is like when an arrow is shot at a mark, the air it divided closes up again immediately, so that men don’t know where it passed through.
13 So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.
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13 So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be; and we had no sign of virtue to show, but we were utterly consumed in our wickedness.”
14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell:
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14 Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest who stays just a day.
15 For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by.
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15 But the righteous live forever. Their reward is in the Lord, and the care for them with the Most High.
16 But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the most High.
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16 Therefore they will receive the crown of royal dignity and the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand, because he will cover them with his right hand, and he will shield them with his arm.
17 Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the Lord: for with his right hand he will cover them, and with his holy arm he will defend them.
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17 He will take his zeal as complete armor, and will make the whole creation his weapons to punish his enemies:
18 And his zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature for the revenge of his enemies.
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18 He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and will wear impartial judgment as a helmet.
19 He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet.
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19 He will take holiness as an invincible shield.
20 He will take equity for an invincible shield:
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20 He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword. The universe will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes.
21 And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise.
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21 Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim. They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow.
22 Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark.
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22 Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled as from a catapult. The water of the sea will be angered against them. Rivers will sternly overwhelm them.
23 And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner.
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23 A mighty wind will encounter them. It will winnow them away like a tempest. So lawlessness will make all the land desolate. Their evil-doing will overturn the thrones of princes.
24 A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.
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24 Not in this translation
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).
For it is the expression of those who lose what they have wrought, that text which says, "What hath pride profited us, or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us? All those things are passed away like a shadow." "The seed of the wicked," then, "shall be cut off."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
If He is not to show, who will they be that are to say, "What hath profited us pride, and what hath boasting of riches bestowed upon us?" For then shall they know, that now will not know.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Therefore we have strayed from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shone to us, and the sun hath not risen to us."...
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)