Wisdom: Selected Verses
- Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. 1:1
- The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. 3:7
- He that rejecteth wisdom ... Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. 3:11
- O how beautiful is the chaste generation. 4:1
- The children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial. 4:6
- The children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial. 4:16
- The Lord shall laugh them to scorn. 4:18
- 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
- Instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. 11:7
- The wicked were judged with wrath and tormented. 11:10
- Because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance. 11:16
- By what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. 11:17
- 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
- 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
- Thou chastisest them that err, by little and little ... that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord. 12:2
- Those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor ... those ... eaters of men' s bowels, and devourers of blood. 12:3
- Thou ... didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. 12:8
- They were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed. 12:10
- The enemies of thy servants ... deserved to die. 12:20
- The idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it. 14:8
- To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. 14:9
- To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. 14:10
- The beginning of fornication is the devising of idols. 14:12
- The worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil. 14:27
