Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation God will throw them to the ground and make them speechless. Like buildings shaken from their foundations, they will be reduced to piles of ruins. They will be in torment. People will soon forget all about them. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish. Wisdom 4:17For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. Wisdom 4:18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. Wisdom 4:20 They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them. Wisdom 5:1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours. Context Wisdom 4…18They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. 19And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish. 20They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.… Cross References Wisdom 4:17 For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. Wisdom 4:18 They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. Wisdom 4:20 They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them. Wisdom 5:1 Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours. |