Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Let's drink the most expensive wines and use the finest perfumes. Let's not miss a single flower in the springtime! New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us. 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: Wisdom 2:6 Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Wisdom 2:8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot. Wisdom 2:9 Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot. Context Wisdom 2…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. 8Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.… Cross References 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 2:6 Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Wisdom 2:8 Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot. Wisdom 2:9 Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot. |