Wisdom 2:16
Good News Translation
They think that our moral standards are so corrupt that everything we do should be avoided. They boast of having God for their Father, and believe that when all is said and done, only the righteous will be happy.

New Revised Standard Version
We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.

Contemporary English Version
They think you're trash, and they won't have anything to do with you. They claim God is their Father and that he will reward them.

New American Bible
He judges us debased; he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. He calls blest the destiny of the righteous and boasts that God is his Father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father.

Wisdom 2:14
He is become a censurer of our thoughts.

Wisdom 2:15
He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, and his ways are very different.

Wisdom 2:17
Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.

Wisdom 2:18
For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.

Context
Wisdom 2
15He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, and his ways are very different. 16We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and he preferreth the latter end of the just, and glorieth that he hath God for his father. 17Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.…
Cross References
Wisdom 2:14
He is become a censurer of our thoughts.

Wisdom 2:15
He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, and his ways are very different.

Wisdom 2:17
Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be.

Wisdom 2:18
For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 2:15
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