Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But their enemies' pitiful cries of grief echoed everywhere, as they mourned for their dead children. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed. Wisdom 18:8For as thou didst punish the adversaries so thou didst also encourage and glorify us. Wisdom 18:9 For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers. Wisdom 18:11 And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. Wisdom 18:12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. Context Wisdom 18…9For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers. 10But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed. 11And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.… Cross References Wisdom 18:8 For as thou didst punish the adversaries so thou didst also encourage and glorify us. Wisdom 18:9 For the just children of good men were offering sacrifice secretly, and they unanimously ordered a law of justice: that the just should receive both good and evil alike, singing now the praises of the fathers. Wisdom 18:11 And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. Wisdom 18:12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. |