Wisdom of Solomon

This argues that wisdom is the greatest thing a man (sic) can possess, and that God is the source of it. In parts the poetry is breathtaking.

5:14 For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

It’s almost convincing, that.

There are also some amusing echoes of the Christian response to the New Atheism movement. This sounds like an apologist blogger moaning about the “strident” Richard Dawkins:

13:1-2 Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.