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1 - But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.

2 - In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:

3 - And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.

4 - And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.

5 - Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.

6 - As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.

7 - The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.

8 - They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

9 - They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.

10 - But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.

11 - For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

12 - Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.

13 - Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.

14 - And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.

15 - For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.

16 - But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.

17 - And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.

18 - And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.

19 - For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.