Wisdom of Solomon

Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart se...

For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a ma...

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God...

Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account ...

Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth.

I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,

Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things.

O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,

She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,