Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation to love her is to be perfectly happy, to do her work is to be rich beyond measure, to share her company is to have sound judgment, to converse with her is to be honored. Then I was determined to take Wisdom as my bride. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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. Wisdom 8:16When 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. Wisdom 8:17 Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality, Wisdom 8:19 And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul. Wisdom 8:20 And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled. Context Wisdom 8…17Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality, 18And 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. 19And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul.… Cross References Wisdom 8:16 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 8:17 Thinking these things with myself, and pondering them in my heart, that to be allied to wisdom is immortality, Wisdom 8:19 And I was a witty child, and had received a good soul. Wisdom 8:20 And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled. |