Wisdom 16:16
Good News Translation
Look at those ungodly people: they refused to recognize you as God, so you punished them with your great power. They were overtaken by terrible storms of rain and hail and were completely destroyed by fire.

New Revised Standard Version
for the ungodly, refusing to know you, were flogged by the strength of your arm, pursued by unusual rains and hail and relentless storms, and utterly consumed by fire.

Contemporary English Version
And when those evil Egyptians rejected you and tried to escape, you punished them with your mighty arm and wiped them out with rainstorms, hailstones, and fiery lightning.

New American Bible
For the wicked who refused to know you were punished by the might of your arm, Were pursued by unusual rains and hailstorms and unremitting downpours, and were consumed by fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Wisdom 16:14
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 16:15
But it is impossible to escape thy hand:

Wisdom 16:17
And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.

Wisdom 16:18
For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.

Context
Wisdom 16
15But it is impossible to escape thy hand: 16For 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. 17And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.…
Cross References
Wisdom 16:14
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 16:15
But it is impossible to escape thy hand:

Wisdom 16:17
And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.

Wisdom 16:18
For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:15
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