Wisdom 2:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 [a]Let us lie in wait for the righteous one, because he is annoying to us;
he opposes our actions,
Reproaches us for transgressions of the law[b]
and charges us with violations of our training.(A)
13 He professes to have knowledge of God
and styles himself a child of the Lord.(B)
14 To us he is the censure of our thoughts;
merely to see him is a hardship for us,(C)
Footnotes
- 2:12–5:23 From 2:12 to 5:23 the author draws heavily on Is 52–62, setting forth his teaching in a series of characters or types taken from Isaiah and embellished with additional details from other texts. The description of the “righteous one” in 2:12–20 seems to undergird the New Testament passion narrative.
- 2:12 Law: the law of Moses; “training” has the same meaning.
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