Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Their wickedness misled them into silly ideas, so that they worshiped snakes and other disgusting animals, creatures without any powers of reason. Because of this, you punished them with millions of such animals, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just. Wisdom 11:13For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past. Wisdom 11:14 For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass. Wisdom 11:16 But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance: Wisdom 11:17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. Context Wisdom 11…14For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass. 15For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just. 16But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance:… Cross References Wisdom 11:13 For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past. Wisdom 11:14 For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass. Wisdom 11:16 But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance: Wisdom 11:17 That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. |