Wisdom 5 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

5 Then the righteous will stand with great confidence
in the presence of those who have oppressed them
and those who make light of their labors.
²When the unrighteous^[a] see them, they will be shaken with dreadful fear,
and they will be amazed at the unexpected salvation of the righteous.
³They will speak to one another in repentance,
and in anguish of spirit they will groan, and say,
⁴“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.
⁵Why have they been numbered among the children of God?
And why is their lot among the saints?
⁶So it was we who strayed from the way of truth,