Given by: the inspired teacher in Solomon's voice, passing verdict on the ungodly's own words. Given to: all readers, as the divine judgement upon the creed spoken in Wisdom 2 — this is the ungodly's deceived reasoning, exposed, not endorsed.

In a Hellenistic setting where hedonist and sceptical philosophies denied the soul's immortality and God's judgement, the book stages that creed and then pronounces it a blindness bred by malice.

These things they thought, and were deceived: for their own malice blinded them.

The whole hedonistic, oppressive creed of the ungodly is exposed here as self-deception, for their own malice blinded them.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:21

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour