en_wbms - Wis 3 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Forsooth the souls of just men be in the hand of God; and the torment of death shall not touch them.

² They seemed to the eyes of unwise men to die; and torment was deemed the out-going of them.

³ And from just way they went into destroying, and that that is of us the way of destroying [or destruction]; but they be in peace.

⁴ Though they suffered torments before men, the hope of them is full of undeadliness.

⁵ They were travailed in a few things, and they shall be disposed well in many things; for why God assayed them, and found them worthy to himself.

⁶ He proved them as gold in a furnace, and he took them as the offering of burnt sacrifice;

⁷ and the beholding of them shall be in time of yielding. Just men shall shine, and they shall run about as sparkles in a place of reeds. [and in time shall be the beholding of them. They shall shine rightwise, and as sparkles in reedy places they shall run hither and thither.]

⁸ They shall deem nations, and shall be lords of peoples; and the Lord of them shall reign without end.

⁹ They that trust on him, shall understand truth; and faithful men in love shall assent to him; for why gift and peace is to his chosen men.

¹⁰ But wicked men, by those things that they thought, shall have punishing; which despised just thing, and went away from the Lord.

¹¹ For he that casteth away wisdom and lore, is cursed [or is unhappy]; and the hope of wicked men is void, and their travails be without fruit, and their works be unhabitable, and unprofitable.

¹² The women of them be unwitting [or unwise], and the sons of them be full wayward [or most wicked].

¹³ The creature of them is cursed; for why the woman barren and undefouled is blessed [or happy is the barren, and the undefouled], that hath not known the bed in trespass; she shall have fruit in the beholding of holy souls.

¹⁴ And a man unmighty to engender or beget, [or a gelding], is blessed, that hath not wrought wickedness by his hands, neither thought most wayward [or wicked] things against the Lord; for why a chosen [free] gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable [or most allowed] heritage in the temple of God.

¹⁵ For why the fruits of good travails is glorious, and the root of wisdom that falleth not down.

¹⁶ But the sons of adulterers shall be in destroying, and the seed of a wicked bed shall be destroyed [or outlawed].

¹⁷ And soothly though they shall be of long life, they shall be areckoned into nought; and the last eld age of them shall be without honour.

¹⁸ And if they be dead swiftlier [or if swiftlier they shall be dead], they shall not have hope, neither allowing in the day of knowing.

¹⁹ Forsooth wicked nations be of hard ending.