Wisdom of Solomon 4
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1BEtter is barennes with vertue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: for it is knowen with God and with men. 2When it is present, men take example thereat, and if it go away, yet they desire it: it is alway crowned and triumpheth, and winneth the battel and the vndefiled rewardes. 3But the multitude of the vngodlie which abunde in children, is vnprofitable: & the bastard plantes shal take no depe roote, nor laye any fast fundacion. 4For thogh they budde forthe in the branches for a time, yet they shal be shaken with the winde: for they stand not fast, and thorowe the vehemencie of the winde they shalbe rooted out. 5For the vnperfect branches shalbe broken, & their frute shalbe vnprofitable & sower to eat, and mete for nothing. 6For all the children that are borne of the wicked bed, shalbe witnes of the wickednes against their parents when they be asked. 7But thogh the righteous be preuented with death, yet shal he be in rest. 8For the honorable age is not that which is of long time, nether that which is measured by the nomber of yeres. 9But wisdome is the graye heere, and an vndefiled life is the olde age. 10He pleased God, & was beloued of him, so that where as he liued among sinners, he translated him. 11He was taken away, lest wickednes shulde alter his vnderstanding, or deceit beguile his minde. 12For wickednes by bewitching obscureth the things that are good, & the vnstedfastnes of concupiscence peruerteth the simple minde. 13Thogh he was sone dead, yet fulfilled he muche time. 14For his soule pleased God: therefore hasted he to take him away from wickednes. 15Yet the people se & vnderstand it not, & consider no suche things in their hearts, how that grace and mercie is vpon his Saintes, and his prouidence ouer the elect. 16Thus the righteous that is dead, condemneth the vngodlie which are liuing: & the youth that is sone broght to an end, the long life of the vnrighteous. 17For they se the end of the wise, but they vnderstand not what God hathe deuised for him, and wherefore the Lord hathe preserued him in safetie. 18They se him and despise him, but the Lord wil laugh them to scorne, 19So that they shal fall hereafter without honour, and shal haue a shame among the dead for euermore: for without anie voyce shal he burste them and cast them downe, and shake them from the fundacions, so that they shalbe vtterly wasted, and they shalbe in sorowe, and their memorial shal perish. 20So they being afraied, shal remember their sinnes, & their owne wickednes shal come before them to conuince them.