Wisdom 5:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ And now here he is, one of God's own children, with a place of his own among God's people. ⁶ We were the ones who wandered off the right road. We never lived in the light of righteousness; we never caught the first glimmer of its light. ⁷ All our lives we wandered across unmarked deserts, instead of following the road which the Lord wanted us to travel. And this lawlessness led us to ruin.