Holy Scripture
Wisdom of Solomon 1:15
A church father on this verse
“I saw a godless person who said, "By the power of my own hand I have acted, and with my wisdom, for I am shrewd. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and I have pillaged their treasures." I saw him exalted. I went forward in my thoughts to the next life and considered the arrangements of Providence. I saw him…”
Source: Septuagint
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15(For righteousness is immortal),
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13For God made not death: Neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
14For he created all things, that they might have their being: And the generations of the world were healthful; And there is no poison of destruction in them, Nor the kingdom of death upon the earth
— Wisdom of Solomon 1:15 —
16But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: For when they thought to have it their friend, They consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, Because they are worthy to take part with it.