Wisdom 4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1 of virtue is immortality:

Because it is recognised both before God and before men.

2When it is present, men imitate it;

And they long after it when it is departed:

And throughout all time it marcheth with bastard slips put forth boughs and wickedness should change his understanding,

Or guile deceive his soul.

12(For the bewitching of naughtiness years;

14For his soul was pleasing unto the Lord:

Therefore hasted he out of the midst of wickedness.

15But as for the peoples, this to heart,

he visiteth his holy ones:—

16But a righteous man that is dead shall condemn the ungodly that are living,

And a reproach among the dead for ever:

19Because he shall dash them speechless to the ground,

And shall shake them from the foundations,

And they shall lie utterly waste, and they shall be in anguish,

And when their sins are reckoned up, with coward fear;

And Cp. Jer. 2.19.their lawless deeds shall convict them to their face.