### Douay Rheims Bible

Wisdom 2

## The Wisdom of Solomon

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.
#### 2 | In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:
#### 3 | And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.
#### 4 | And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.
#### 5 | Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.
#### 6 | As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.
#### 7 | The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.
#### 8 | They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.
#### 9 | They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect.
#### 10 | But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.
#### 11 | For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.
#### 12 | Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.
#### 13 | Their offspring is cursed: for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin: she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.
#### 14 | And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God: for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.
#### 15 | For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.
#### 16 | But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.
#### 17 | And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.
#### 18 | And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.
#### 19 | For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

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