Wis 5:1 

Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before 

the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of 

his labours. 

Wis 5:2 

When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, 

and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far 

beyond all that they looked for. 

Wis 5:3 

And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall 

say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in 

derision, and a proverb of reproach: 

Wis 5:4 

We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be 

without honour: 

Wis 5:5 

How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is 

among the saints! 

Wis 5:6 

Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light 

of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of 

righteousness rose not upon us. 

Wis 5:7 

We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and 

destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay 

no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it. 

Wis 5:8 

What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with 

our vaunting brought us? 

Wis 5:9 

All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post 

that hasted by; 

Wis 5:10 

And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which 

when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither 

the pathway of the keel in the waves; 

Wis 5:11 

Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no 

token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten 

with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise 

and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no 

sign where she went is to be found; 

Wis 5:12 

Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the 

air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man 

cannot know where it went through: 

Wis 5:13 

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to 

draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were 

consumed in our own wickedness. 

Wis 5:14 

For the hope of the Godly is like dust that is blown away 

with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the 

storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with 

a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that 

tarrieth but a day. 

Wis 5:15 

But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is 

with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. 

Wis 5:16 

Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a 

beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand 

shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them. 

Wis 5:17 

He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and 

make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies. 

Wis 5:18 

He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true 

judgment instead of an helmet. 

Wis 5:19 

He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. 

Wis 5:20 

His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world 

shall fight with him against the unwise. 

Wis 5:21 

Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from 

the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the 

mark. 

Wis 5:22 

And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone 

bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the 

floods shall cruelly drown them. 

Wis 5:23 

Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a 

storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the 

whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the 

mighty.