Wisdom 18:2
Good News Translation
Those enemies could at least be thankful that the people they had wronged were not taking vengeance on them now, and so they begged them to leave.

New Revised Standard Version
and were thankful that your holy ones, though previously wronged, were doing them no injury; and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them.

Contemporary English Version
The Egyptians were thankful that the people they had abused were not abusing them in return, and so they begged your chosen people for forgiveness.

New American Bible
And because they who formerly had been wronged did not harm them, they thanked them, and because of the difference between them, pleaded with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 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 18:1
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 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.

Wisdom 18:4
The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.

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. 3Therefore 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.…
Cross References
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 18:1
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 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.

Wisdom 18:4
The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 18:1
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