Wisdom: Selected Verses

1. Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth.   1:1
2. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.   3:7
3. He that rejecteth wisdom ... Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.   3:11
4. O how beautiful is the chaste generation.   4:1
5. The children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.   4:6
6. The children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.   4:16
7. The Lord shall laugh them to scorn.   4:18
8. They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.   11:4
9. Instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.   11:7
10. The wicked were judged with wrath and tormented.   11:10
11. Because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance.   11:16
12. By what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.   11:17
13. Thy almighty hand ... was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions, Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes ... the very sight might kill them through fear.   11:18
14. Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes ... the very sight might kill them through fear.   11:19
15. Thou chastisest them that err, by little and little ... that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord.   12:2
16. Those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor ... those ... eaters of men' s bowels, and devourers of blood.   12:3
17. Thou ... didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.   12:8
18. They were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.   12:10
19. The enemies of thy servants ... deserved to die.   12:20
20. The idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it.   14:8
21. To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike.   14:9
22. To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike.   14:10
23. The beginning of fornication is the devising of idols.   14:12
24. The worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.   14:27