Wisdom 1
Those who judge the land should love justice and seek the Lord with a simple heart, for he is found by those who have faith in him. Perverse thoughts and malicious souls separate from God, and wisdom will not enter into a body subdued by sin. The spirit of wisdom is benevolent and will not release the evil speaker from his talk, and God is a witness to every temperament and heart. The impious have called death to themselves and made a covenant with it, while God created all things to exist and did not make death.
1Love justice, you who judge the land. Think of the Lord in goodness and seek him in simplicity of heart2For he is found by those who do not test him, yet he reveals himself to those who have faith in him3For perverse thoughts separate from God. But his virtue, when it is tested, corrects the foolish4For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subdued by sin5For the holy spirit of instruction will flee from falsehood, and he will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he will not be reached when iniquity overcomes6For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not release the evil speaker from his talk, because God is a witness of his temperament, and a true examiner of his heart, and an auditor of his words7For the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and he who contains all things, retains knowledge of every voice8Therefore, he who speaks unjust things cannot escape notice, nor will the chastising judgment pass him by9For inquiry will be made into the thoughts of the impious, his conversation also will reach the hearing of God, to the chastising of his iniquities10For the zealous ear hears all things, and the disturbance of complaining will not be hidden11Therefore, keep yourselves from complaining, which benefits nothing, and refrain your tongue from slander, because secret conversation will not pass into nothingness, and the mouth that lies kills the soul12Do not court death by the error of your life, nor procure your destruction by the works of your hands13because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the loss of the living14For he created all things that they might exist, and he made the nations of the world curable, and there is no medicine of extermination in them, nor a kingdom of hell upon the earth15For justice is perpetual and immortal16But the impious, with hands and words, have called death to them, and, esteeming it a friend, they have fallen away and have made a covenant with death, because they deserved to take part in it
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