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Wisdom 3:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor. "

Wisdom 3:17

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15 For good labors have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail.

16 But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away.

17 For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor.

18 If they die young, they will have no hope, nor consolation in the day of judgment.

19 For the end of an unrighteous generation is always grievous.

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Wisdom 3:1

"But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them."

Wisdom 3:2

"In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died. Their departure was considered a disaster,"

Wisdom 3:3

"and their travel away from us ruin, but they are in peace."

Wisdom 3:4

"For even if in the sight of men they are punished, their hope is full of immortality."

Wisdom 3:5

"Having borne a little chastening, they will receive great good; because God tested them, and found them worthy of himself."

Wisdom 3:6

"He tested them like gold in the furnace, and he accepted them as a whole burnt offering."

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