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12 Do not invite death by the error of your life,
nor bring on destruction by the works of your hands;
13 because God did not make death,
and he does not delight in the death of the living.
14 For he created all things that they might exist,
and the generative forces[a] of the world are wholesome,
and there is no destructive poison in them;
and the dominion[b] of Hades is not on earth.
15 For righteousness is immortal.

Life as the Ungodly See It

16 But ungodly men by their words and deeds summoned death;[c]
considering him a friend, they pined away,
and they made a covenant with him,
because they are fit to belong to his party.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 1:14 Or the creatures
  2. Wisdom 1:14 Or palace
  3. Wisdom 1:16 Gk him

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