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Wisdom 4:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 4:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 For the honor that comes with age is not due to the length of life
or determined by the number of years.
9 Gray hairs for anyone consists in understanding,
and ripe old age consists in a blameless life.
10 [a]He has sought to please God, so God has loved him;
while living among sinners, he has been taken up.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 4:10 These verses contain allusions to Enoch, who was young in terms of the life-span of the Patriarchs (Gen 5:21-24) and Lot (Gen 19:10-11; 2 Pet 2:7-8). Taken up: the righteous are “taken up” like Enoch (Gen 5:24), Elijah (2 Ki 2:1, 11), and Christ at the Ascension (Acts 1:11, 22).
