THE BOOK OF WISDOM – SECTION III

THE UNJUST AND THEIR PACT WITH DEATH

I. Chapter 1 ends with a dramatic switch over to the attitude of the wicked, who paradoxically seek death. Verse 16 describes with increasing intensity to deal of "ungodly" with death.

A. It first states that they themselves summoned death.

II. The book then describes the attitude of the ungodly by quoting what the ungodly really mean, even if they do not say it.

III. In the second half of their speech, the ungodly then turn against the innocent because they are in the way and the just man because he bothers their conscience.

IV. The chapter concludes by describing that flaw in their reasoning.

B. The book describes this blindness in three ways.