Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Wisdom rescued a righteous man while ungodly people were dying. He escaped the flames that destroyed the Five Cities. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis: Wisdom 10:4For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood. Wisdom 10:5 Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. Wisdom 10:7 Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul. Wisdom 10:8 For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid. Context Wisdom 10…5Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. 6She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis: 7Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.… Cross References Wisdom 10:4 For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood. Wisdom 10:5 Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. Wisdom 10:7 Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul. Wisdom 10:8 For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid. |