Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation God did not invent death, and when living creatures die, it gives him no pleasure. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. Wisdom 1:11Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. Wisdom 1:12 Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. Wisdom 1:14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth. Wisdom 1:15 For justice is perpetual and immortal. Context Wisdom 1…12Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. 13For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. 14For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth.… Cross References Wisdom 1:11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. Wisdom 1:12 Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. Wisdom 1:14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth. Wisdom 1:15 For justice is perpetual and immortal. |