Wisdom 4:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

¹⁸ They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

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.