Wisdom of Solomon 10

10:1

Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone,

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10:2

and gave him strength to rule over all things.

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10:3

But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger,

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10:4

When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood,

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10:5

Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded,

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10:6

While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man,

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10:7

To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesses,

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10:8

For having passed wisdom by,

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10:9

but wisdom delivered those who waited on her out of troubles.

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10:10

When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths.

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10:11

When in their covetousness men dealt harshly with him,

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10:12

She guarded him from enemies,

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10:13

When a righteous man was sold, wisdom didn’t forsake him,

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10:14

and in bonds she didn’t depart from him,

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10:15

Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.

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10:16

She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord,

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10:17

She rendered to holy men a reward of their toils.

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10:18

She brought them over the Red sea,

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10:19

but she drowned their enemies,

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10:20

Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly,

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10:21

because wisdom opened the mouth of the mute,

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