1 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. ... |
12 Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education. |
13 He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord. |
14 He was made to reprove our thoughts. |
15 He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. |
16 We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father. |
17 Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. |
18 For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies. |
19 Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience. |
20 Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected. |
21 Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them. |
22 As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls. |
