Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The wicked say, "Come on, then, let's enjoy the good things of life, and live in this world the way we did when we were young and free of care! New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Wisdom 2:4And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works. Wisdom 2:5 For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth: Wisdom 2:7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us. Wisdom 2:8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot. Context Wisdom 2…5For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth: 6Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. 7Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.… Cross References Wisdom 2:4 And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works. Wisdom 2:5 For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth: Wisdom 2:7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us. Wisdom 2:8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot. |