Wisdom 16:14
Good News Translation
A wicked person may kill someone, but cannot bring the dead person back to life or rescue a soul imprisoned in the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
A person in wickedness kills another, but cannot bring back the departed spirit, or set free the imprisoned soul.

Contemporary English Version
It's easy enough for us humans to kill another in anger, but we don't have the power to bring back a departed spirit or to set a soul free from the world of the dead.

New American Bible
Human beings, however, may kill another with malice, but they cannot bring back the departed spirit, or release the soul that death has confined.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received:

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A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received:

Wisdom 16:12
For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster, that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

Wisdom 16:13
For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:

Wisdom 16:15
But it is impossible to escape thy hand:

Wisdom 16:16
For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.

Context
Wisdom 16
13For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again: 14A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received: 15But it is impossible to escape thy hand:…
Cross References
Wisdom 16:12
For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster, that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

Wisdom 16:13
For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:

Wisdom 16:15
But it is impossible to escape thy hand:

Wisdom 16:16
For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:13
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