Wisdom 8:9
Good News Translation
So I decided to take Wisdom home to live with me, because I knew that she would give me good advice and encourage me in times of trouble and grief.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she would give me good counsel and encouragement in cares and grief.

Contemporary English Version
So I decided to bring Wisdom home to live with me-- she will offer good advice, as well as comfort in times of suffering and grief.

New American Bible
So I determined to take her to live with me, knowing that she would be my counselor while all was well, and my comfort in care and grief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.

Wisdom 8:7
And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

Wisdom 8:8
And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

Wisdom 8:10
For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:

Wisdom 8:11
And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me.

Context
Wisdom 8
8And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages. 9I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief. 10For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:…
Cross References
Wisdom 8:7
And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

Wisdom 8:8
And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

Wisdom 8:10
For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:

Wisdom 8:11
And I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgment, and shall be admired in the sight of the mighty, and the faces of princes shall wonder at me.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 8:8
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