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2For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
¹²Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
¹³He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
¹⁴He was made to reprove our thoughts.
¹⁵He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another fashion.
¹⁶We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
¹⁷Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.
¹⁸For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
¹⁹Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
²⁰Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
²¹Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
²²As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
²³For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
²⁴Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.