Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation O Lord, your acts of judgment are marvelous and hard to explain; that is why people who had not been taught about them went astray. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred. Wisdom 16:28That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light. Wisdom 16:29 For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water. Wisdom 17:2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence. Wisdom 17:3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment. Context Wisdom 17… 1For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred. 2For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.… Cross References Wisdom 16:28 That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light. Wisdom 16:29 For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water. Wisdom 17:2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence. Wisdom 17:3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment. |