Wisdom 4:16-18

Good News Translation

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. ¹⁸ They make light of a wise person's death, but the Lord will soon be laughing at them. When they die, they will not be given an honorable burial. Even the dead will hold them in scorn and disgust forever.