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2 By reasoning in their twisted way, the ungodly said: Our lives are short and painful. There is no antidote for death; no one has come back from the grave. 2 All of us came into being by chance. When our lives are over, it will be just as if we had never been. The breath in our nostrils is mere smoke. Reason is just a spark in the beating of our hearts. 3 When that spark is extinguished, the body will be turned into ashes. The spirit will evaporate into thin air. 4 Over time, our names will be forgotten. No one will remember our deeds. Our lives will pass away like the last wisps of a cloud. Our lives will be dispersed like a morning mist chased away by the sun and weighed down by the day’s heat. 5 Our time here is like a shadow passing by. There’s no turning back from death. It has been sealed, and no one will alter it.
6 Come then! Let’s enjoy all the good things of life now. Let’s enjoy creation to the fullest as we did in our youth. 7 Let’s drink our fill of expensive wines and enjoy fine perfumes. Let’s pluck every fresh blossom of spring as we pass by. 8 Let’s crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. 9 Let’s make sure that no meadow is left untouched by our high-spirited fun. Let’s leave evidence everywhere that we made the most of this life, because this life is all we have.
10 Let’s take advantage of the day laborer who does what’s right. Let’s not be afraid to abuse the widow. Let’s show that we couldn’t care less for the gray hair of our elders. 11 May strength be our only law and determine what’s right, for it’s clear to us that what is weak is worthless.
12 Let’s lie in ambush for the one who does what is right. He’s a nuisance to us. He always opposes our actions. He blames us because we have failed to keep the Law. He condemns us for turning our backs on our upbringing. 13 He boasts of his knowledge of God. He even calls himself the Lord’s servant.[a] 14 He exposes our secret plans. Just to look at him makes us sick. 15 His life isn’t like the lives of others. His ways are completely different. 16 He thinks we’re frauds. He avoids us and our actions as though we’re unclean. Instead, he blesses the final days of those who do what’s right. He even boasts that God is his Father.
17 Let’s see if his words are true. Let’s put him to the extreme test and see what happens. 18 If this man who does the right thing is indeed God’s son, then God will assist him. God will rescue him from the hand of those who oppress him. 19 Let’s test him by assaulting and torturing him. Then we will know just how good he really is. Let’s test his ability to endure pain. 20 Let’s condemn him to a disgraceful death: according to him, God should show up to protect him.
21 This was how the ungodly reasoned, but they were mistaken. Their malice completely blinded them. 22 They didn’t know of God’s secret plan. They didn’t hope for the reward that holiness brings. They didn’t consider the prize they would win if they kept their whole beings free from stain. 23 God created humans to live forever. He made them as a perfect representation of his own unique identity. 24 Death entered the universe only through the devil’s envy. Those who belong to the devil’s party experience death.[b]
2 Forsooth wicked men said, thinking with themselves not rightfully, The time of our life is little, and with annoyance (or harm); no refreshing is in the end of a man, and none there is, that is known, that (re)turned again from hells (or from the grave). [Forsooth unpious men said, thinking with t...
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2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,“Short and sorrowful is our life,and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end,and no one has been known to return from Hades.2 Because we were born by mere chance,and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been;because the breath in our...
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2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,“Short and sorrowful is our life,and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end,and no one has been known to return from Hades.2 Because we were born by mere chance,and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been;because the breath in our...
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2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,“Short and sorrowful is our life,and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end,and no one has been known to return from Hades.2 For we were born by mere chance,and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been,for the breath in our nostri...
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2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,‘Short and sorrowful is our life,and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end,and no one has been known to return from Hades.2 For we were born by mere chance,and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been,for the breath in our nostri...
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2 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves,‘Short and sorrowful is our life,and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end,and no one has been known to return from Hades.2 For we were born by mere chance,and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been,for the breath in our nostri...
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Chapter 21 These people said to themselves with deluded reasoning:“Brief and burdensome is our life, and there is no remedy when death summons, nor has anyone been known to have returned[a] from the netherworld.2 For we were born as the result of happenstance, and afterward we shall be as though we ...
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Chapter 21 For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:[a]“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;(A) there is no remedy for our dying, nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.2 For by mere chance were we born, and hereafter we shall be as though we had not been;Because the breath in...
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Wicked Thinking2 Wicked people are wrong when they say to themselves, Our life is short and full of sorrow, and when its end comes, there is no escape. No one has ever been known to come back from the world of the dead. 2 We were born by chance, and after life is over, we will be as if we had never ...
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2 For they have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right: The time of our life is short and tedious, and in the end of a man there is no remedy, and no man hath been known to have returned from hell: 2 For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath...
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