en_wbms - Wis 2 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Forsooth wicked men said, thinking with themselves not rightfully, The time of our life is little, and with annoyance; no refreshing is in the end of a man, and none there is, that is known, that turned again from hells. [Forsooth unpious men said, thinking with themselves not right, Little and with annoyance is the time of our life; there is not refreshing in the end of a man, and there is not, that be known, turned again from hell.]

² For we were born of nought, and after this time we shall be, as if we had not been; for why smoke is blown out in our nostrils, and a word of sparkle to stir our heart.

³ For our body shall be quenched ashes, and the spirit shall be scattered abroad as soft air; and our life shall pass as the step of a cloud, and it shall be departed as a mist, which is driven away of the beams of the sun, and is grieved of the heart thereof.

⁴ And our name shall take forgetting by the passing of time; and no man shall have mind of our works.

⁵ For why our time is the passing of a shadow, and no turning again of our end there is [or there is not turning again of our end]; for it is asealed, and no man turneth again.

⁶ Therefore come ye [or Cometh then], and use we the goods that be, and use we a creature, as in youth, swiftly.

⁷ Fill we us with precious wine and ointments; and the flower of time pass not us.

⁸ Crown we us with roses, before that they wither; no meadow be, that our lechery pass not by [or through].

⁹ No man of us be there without part of our lechery; everywhere leave we the signs of gladness; for this is our part, and this is our heritage [or our lot].

¹⁰ Oppress we a poor just [or rightwise] man, and spare we not a widow, neither reverence we hoar hairs of an old man of much time.

¹¹ But our strength be the law of rightfulness; for why that that is feeble, is found unprofitable.

¹² Therefore deceive we a just [or the rightwise] man, for he is unprofitable to us, and he is contrary to our works; and he upbraideth [or reprovingly putteth] to us the sins of law, and he defameth on [or against] us the sins of our teaching.

¹³ He promiseth that he hath the knowing of God, and he nameth himself the son of God.

¹⁴ He is made to us into showing of our thoughts.

¹⁵ He is grievous to us, yea, to see; for why his life is unlike to other men, and his ways be changed.

¹⁶ We be guessed of him to be triflers, that is, men of no virtue, and he abstaineth himself from our ways, as from uncleannesses; and he before-setteth [or telleth before] the last things of just men, and he hath glory, that he hath God his father.

¹⁷ Therefore see we, if his words be true; and assay we, what things shall come to him; and we shall know, what shall be the last things of him.

¹⁸ For if he is the very son of God, he shall up-take him, and shall deliver him from the hands of them that be contrary to him.

¹⁹ Ask we him by despising and torment, that we know his reverence, and that we prove his patience.

²⁰ By most foul death condemn we him, for why beholding [or respect] shall be of his words.

²¹ They thought these things, and they erred; for why their malice blinded them.

²² And they knew not the sacraments of God, neither they hoped the meed of rightfulness [or of rightwiseness], neither they deemed the honour of holy souls.

²³ For why God made man unable to be destroyed [or undeadly], and God made man to the image of his likeness.

²⁴ But by [or through] envy of the devil death entered into the world; forsooth they pursue [or follow] him, that be of his part.