10. Being found well-pleasing to God he was beloved of him, And while living among sinners he was translated:
11. He was caught away, lest wickedness should change his understanding, Or guile deceive his soul.
12. (For the bewitching of naughtiness bedimmeth the things which are good, And the giddy whirl of desire perverteth an innocent mind.)
13. Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long years;
14. For his soul was pleasing to the Lord: Therefore hasted he out of the midst of wickedness.
15. But as for the peoples, seeing and understanding not, Neither laying this to heart, That grace and mercy are with his chosen, And that he visiteth his holy ones:—
16. But a righteous man that is dead shall condemn the ungodly that are living, And youth that is quickly perfected the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age;
17. For the ungodly shall see a wise man’s end, And shall not understand what the Lord purposed concerning him, And for what he safely kept him:—
18. They shall see, and they shall despise; But them the Lord shall laugh to scorn. And after this they shall become a dishonored carcase, And a reproach among the dead for ever:
19. Because he shall dash them speechless to the ground, And shall shake them from the foundations, And they shall lie utterly waste, and they shall be in anguish, And their memory shall perish.
20. They shall come, when their sins are reckoned up, with coward fear; And their lawless deeds shall convict them to their face.