Wisdom 3 - Summary

'The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.' The unwise took their death for misery, but they are at peace: God tried them like gold in the furnace and received them as a burnt offering, and in the time of their visitation they will shine like sparks among the stubble and judge the nations. The ungodly, who despised wisdom, will be punished according to their own imaginations. The chapter then blesses the barren woman who is undefiled and the eunuch who has wrought no iniquity, while the children of adulterers will not come to their perfection.