Wisdom of Solomon 2:13-20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹³ He professes to have knowledge of God
and calls himself a child of the Lord.
¹⁴ He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
the very sight of him is a burden to us,
¹⁵ because his manner of life is unlike that of others,
and his ways are strange.^(A)
16 We are considered by him as something base,
and he avoids our ways as unclean;
he calls the last end of the righteous happy
and boasts that God is his father.^(B)
17 Let us see if his words are true,
and let us test what will happen at the end of his life,
¹⁸ for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him
and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.^(C)
19 Let us test him with insult and torture,
so that we may find out how reasonable he is
and make trial of his forbearance.^(D)
20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”