Wisdom 14:22
Good News Translation
One thing led to another. It was not enough to be wrong about the knowledge of God. They lived in a state of evil warfare, but they were so ignorant that they called it peace.

New Revised Standard Version
Then it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but though living in great strife due to ignorance, they call such great evils peace.

Contemporary English Version
Not only are such people ignorant about you, but this ignorance makes them terrible enemies of each other, even while they think they are living at peace.

New American Bible
Then it was not enough for them to err in their knowledge of God; but even though they live in a great war resulting from ignorance, they call such evils peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Wisdom 14:20
And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a man.

Wisdom 14:21
And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.

Wisdom 14:23
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

Wisdom 14:24
So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

Context
Wisdom 14
21And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood. 22And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace. 23For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,…
Cross References
Wisdom 14:20
And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a man.

Wisdom 14:21
And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.

Wisdom 14:23
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

Wisdom 14:24
So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 14:21
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