Neither hoped they for wages of holiness,
Nor did they judge that there is a prize for blameless souls.
Because God created man for incorruption,
And made him an image of His own everlastingness.
WISDOM OF SOLOMON 2. 1, 2, 4–9, 11, 21–3.
REPENTANCE OF THE WICKED
THEY shall say within themselves repenting:
‘Verily we went astray from the way of truth,
We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction,