Wisdom 10:1–9
1Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgression,↗
2and gave him strength to rule over all things.↗
3But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, he perished himself in the rage with which he killed his brother.↗
4When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood, wisdom again saved it, guiding the righteous man’s course by a paltry piece of wood.↗
5Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded, wisdom knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless to God, and kept him strong when his heart yearned toward his child.↗
6While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man, when he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on the five cities.↗
7To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesses, and plants bearing fair fruit that doesn’t ripen, a disbelieving soul has a memorial: a standing pillar of salt.↗
8For having passed wisdom by, not only were they disabled from recognising the things which are good, but they also left behind them for their life a monument of their folly, to the end that where they stumbled, they might fail even to be unseen;↗
9but wisdom delivered those who waited on her out of troubles.↗
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