Wis 2:1 
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. 
 
Wis 2:2 
For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter 
as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is 
as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: 
 
Wis 2:3 
Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into 
ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air, 
 
Wis 2:4 
And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall 
have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as 
the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is 
driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the 
heat thereof. 
 
Wis 2:5 
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after 
our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no 
man cometh again. 
 
Wis 2:6 
Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are 
present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. 
 
Wis 2:7 
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let 
no flower of the spring pass by us: 
 
Wis 2:8 
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be 
withered: 
 
Wis 2:9 
Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let 
us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is 
our portion, and our lot is this. 
 
Wis 2:10 
Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the 
widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged. 
 
Wis 2:11 
Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is 
feeble is found to be nothing worth. 
 
Wis 2:12 
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. 
 
Wis 2:13 
He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth 
himself the child of the Lord. 
 
Wis 2:14 
He was made to reprove our thoughts. 
 
Wis 2:15 
He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not 
like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. 
 
Wis 2:16 
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. 
 
Wis 2:17 
Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall 
happen in the end of him. 
 
Wis 2:18 
For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and 
deliver him from the hand of his enemies. 
 
Wis 2:19 
Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we 
may know his meekness, and prove his patience. 
 
Wis 2:20 
Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own 
saying he shall be respected. 
 
Wis 2:21 
Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their 
own wickedness hath blinded them. 
 
Wis 2:22 
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. 
 
Wis 2:23 
For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an 
image of his own eternity. 
 
Wis 2:24 
Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the 
world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.