Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation And so it was appropriate that these people were punished by such creatures--tormented by swarms of them. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts. Wisdom 15:18Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they. Wisdom 15:19 Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing. Wisdom 16:2 Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat: Wisdom 16:3 To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat. Context Wisdom 16… 1For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts. 2Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:… Cross References Wisdom 15:18 Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they. Wisdom 15:19 Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing. Wisdom 16:2 Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat: Wisdom 16:3 To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat. |