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Wisdom 5:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 5:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 so we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be
and had not a trace of virtue to exhibit
but were consumed in our wickedness.”[a]
14 The hope of the godless is like chaff carried on the wind,
and like sea spray swept before a storm;
it is dissipated like smoke confronted by the wind,
and it passes away like the memory of a guest who stays but a single day.
15 But the righteous live forever,
and their recompense is with the Lord;[b]
the Most High provides for them.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 5:13 After this verse the Vulgate adds the words: “This is what the sinners say in hell” as verse 14, necessitating a change in the enumeration of the rest of the verses in the chapter.
- Wisdom 5:15 Their recompense is with the Lord: for he is their portion (see Pss 16:5-6; 73:26; see also Wis 3:14).