Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Yet all the while a brilliant light was shining for your holy people. Their enemies heard their voices, but couldn't see them. They envied the good fortune of your people, who were not suffering. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee: Wisdom 17:19For the whole world was enlightened, with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours. Wisdom 17:20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness. Wisdom 18:2 And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference. Wisdom 18:3 Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment. Context Wisdom 18… 1But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee: 2And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference.… Cross References Wisdom 17:19 For the whole world was enlightened, with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours. Wisdom 17:20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness. Wisdom 18:2 And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference. Wisdom 18:3 Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment. |