Wisdom 4:18
Good News Translation
They make light of a wise person's death, but the Lord will soon be laughing at them. When they die, they will not be given an honorable burial. Even the dead will hold them in scorn and disgust forever.

New Revised Standard Version
The unrighteous will see, and will have contempt for them, but the Lord will laugh them to scorn. After this they will become dishonored corpses, and an outrage among the dead forever;

Contemporary English Version
When they see this happen, they simply sneer. But God will laugh at them because their dead bodies will be forever disgusting to the rest of the dead.

New American Bible
They will see, and hold him in contempt; but the LORD will laugh them to scorn.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

Wisdom 4:16
But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

Wisdom 4:17
For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.

Wisdom 4:19
And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

Wisdom 4:20
They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.

Context
Wisdom 4
17For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. 18They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn. 19And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.…
Cross References
Wisdom 4:16
But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

Wisdom 4:17
For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.

Wisdom 4:19
And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.

Wisdom 4:20
They shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 4:17
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