Wisdom 3:13
Good News Translation
All his descendants will be under a curse.

New Revised Standard Version
their offspring are accursed. For blessed is the barren woman who is undefiled, who has not entered into a sinful union; she will have fruit when God examines souls.

Contemporary English Version
and under God's curse.

New American Bible
Yes, blessed is she who, childless and undefiled, never knew transgression of the marriage bed; for she shall bear fruit at the judgment of souls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.

Wisdom 3:11
For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

Wisdom 3:12
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.

Wisdom 3:14
And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.

Wisdom 3:15
For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.

Context
Wisdom 3
12Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. 13Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. 14And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.…
Cross References
Wisdom 3:11
For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

Wisdom 3:12
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.

Wisdom 3:14
And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.

Wisdom 3:15
For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

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