Paul, Jesus and the Wisdom of Solomon

Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 2:12-20:

"Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.
He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.
He was made to reprove our thoughts.
He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion.
We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.
Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.
For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.

According to my Catholic NAB version these verses are "often applied to the Passion of our Lord; many have understood these verses as a direct prophecy."

There is one passage (highlighted in bold above) in particular that is of interest.

"Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God." (John 5:18)

The parallel is striking. Obviously, calling God the Father was not something new with Jesus. To what extent it was used I don't know. But it wasn't new. The writer of Wisdom wrote these words roughly 100 years prior to the advent of Jesus. Prophecy? Perhaps. Did the early Christians (e.g. Paul) know these verses, even if only orally? Did they influence or straight out make their way into their understanding of Jesus?

Seems to me there was a current of thought that existed, even if only orally, into which Jesus' life fit. A skeptic would say they conformed Jesus to fit this mold. A believer would simply say that Jesus lived the life that met the expectation many held.