Wisdom 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “These are persons whom we once held in derision and made a byword of reproach—fools that we were! We thought that their lives were madness and that their end was without honor. More versionsCommon English Bible He’s the one we mocked?! He’s the one we insulted? What idiots we were! We thought his life was madness and his death a disgrace. Catholic Public Domain Version We foolish considered their life to be madness, and their end to be without honor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Good News Translation (US Version) “This is the one we made fun of. We thought he was a joke. What fools we were! We thought he was crazy to live the way he did, and when he died, we didn't honor him. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers We fools considered his life madness, and his end without honor. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition We were fools to sneer at those people, but we thought they were fools who had died in disgrace. |