Wisdom 5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness

Before the face of them that afflicted him,

And them that make his labours of no account.

2When they see it, within themselves repenting,

And for distress of spirit shall they groan,

This was he whom aforetime we had in derision,

And made reproach:

4We fools accounted his life and vaunting brought us?

9Those things all passed away with the violent rush of the moving wings, is passed through,

And afterwards no sign of her coming is found therein:

12Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark,

The air disparted closeth up again immediately,

So that men know not where it passed through:

13So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be;

And of virtue we had no sign to shew,

But in our wickedness we were utterly consumed.

14Because as foam vanishing before a tempest;

And is scattered for vengeance on his enemies:

18 Is. 59.17,18. Eph. 6.14. Cp. 1 Thes. 5.8. He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate,

Cp. Eph. 6.17 & 1 Thes. 5.8. And shall array himself with judgement unfeigned as with a helmet;

19 Cp. Eph. 6.16. He shall take holiness as an invincible shield,

20 Cp. Eph. 6.17 & Heb. 4.12. And he shall sharpen stern wrath for a sword:

ch. 16.24. See Ecclus. 39.25-30. And the world shall go forth with him to fight against his insensate foes.

21 Cp. Ps. 7.12,13 & 18.14 & 2 Esd. 16.13. Shafts of lightning shall fly with true aim,

And from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they leap to the mark.

22 See Josh. 10.11. And as from an engine of war shall be hurled hailstones full of wrath;

Cp. Ex. 14.27,28 & 15.10. The water of the sea shall be angered against them,

Cp. Judg. 5.21. And rivers shall sternly overwhelm them;

23 Cp. Is. 41.16. A mighty blast shall encounter them,

And as a tempest shall it winnow them away:

And so shall lawlessness make all the land desolate,

And their evil-doing shall overturn the thrones of princes.