Wisdom 8:16
Good News Translation
When I come home to Wisdom, I will find contentment because there is no conflict or pain in living with her, only happiness and joy."

New Revised Standard Version
When I enter my house, I shall find rest with her; for companionship with her has no bitterness, and life with her has no pain, but gladness and joy.

Contemporary English Version
With Wisdom as my friend, I will live happily and at peace, with no bitter regrets.

New American Bible
Entering my house, I shall take my repose beside her; For association with her involves no bitterness and living with her no grief, but rather joy and gladness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness.

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When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness.

Wisdom 8:14
I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me.

Wisdom 8:15
Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.

Wisdom 8:17
Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,

Wisdom 8:18
And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.

Context
Wisdom 8
15Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war. 16When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, nor her company any tediousness, but joy and gladness. 17Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,…
Cross References
Wisdom 8:14
I shall set the people in order: and nations shall be subject to me.

Wisdom 8:15
Terrible kings hearing, shall be afraid of me: among the multitude I shall be found good, and valiant in war.

Wisdom 8:17
Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality,

Wisdom 8:18
And that there is great delight in her friendship, and inexhaustible riches in the works of her hands, and in the exercise of conference with her, wisdom, and glory in the communication of her words: I went about seeking, that I might take her to myself.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 8:15
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