Wisdom 4:15-17

Good News Translation

¹⁵ that God is kind and merciful to his own people; he protects those whom he has chosen.

The Fate of the Wicked

¹⁶ Even when righteous people are dead and gone, they put to shame the wicked people who live on after them. In their old age the wicked will be disgraced by young people who have already achieved perfection. ¹⁷ The wise may die young, but the wicked will never understand that this is the Lord's way of taking them off to safety.