Wisdom 2:7
Good News Translation
Let's drink the most expensive wines and use the finest perfumes. Let's not miss a single flower in the springtime!

New Revised Standard Version
Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no flower of spring pass us by.

Contemporary English Version
Drink the very best wine, wear expensive perfume, and enjoy the spring flowers.

New American Bible
Let us have our fill of costly wine and perfumes, and let no springtime blossom pass us by;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.

Wisdom 2:5
For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

Wisdom 2:6
Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

Wisdom 2:8
Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.

Wisdom 2:9
Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.

Context
Wisdom 2
6Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. 7Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us. 8Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.…
Cross References
Wisdom 2:5
For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

Wisdom 2:6
Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

Wisdom 2:8
Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.

Wisdom 2:9
Let none of us go without his part in luxury: let us every where leave tokens of joy: for this is our portion, and this our lot.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

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