Holy Scripture
Wisdom of Solomon 4:20
A church father on this verse
“"In you, Lord, I have taken refuge. I will never be put to shame." I am terrified, you say, of that confusion that lasts forever. There is a certain temporal confusion that is useful: the disturbance of a soul that realizes its sins, is horrified by what it sees and in that horror is ashamed and corrects what it is as…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20And when they cast up the account of their sins, they shall come with fear: And their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.
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In context
18They shall see him, and despise him; But God shall laugh them to scorn; And they shall hereafter be a vile carcass, And a reproach among the dead for evermore.
19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
— Wisdom of Solomon 4:20 —