Wisdom 1:13
Good News Translation
God did not invent death, and when living creatures die, it gives him no pleasure.

New Revised Standard Version
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.

Contemporary English Version
God did not create us for death, and when we die, it doesn't make him glad.

New American Bible
Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

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.

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.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 1:12
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