7 To 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. (WEB) 8 For 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; (WEB) 9 but wisdom delivered those who waited on her out of troubles. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 10:7–9
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27 God didn’t choose these, nor did he give the way of knowledge to them, (WEB) 28 so they perished, because they had no wisdom. They perished through their own foolishness. (WEB) 29 Who has gone up into heaven, taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 2:20–22
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Baruch 6:41–43
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20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. 21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Job 8:12–14
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Sirach 15:6–8
6 He will inherit joy, a crown of gladness, and an everlasting name. (WEB) 7 Foolish men will not obtain her. Sinners will not see her. (WEB) 8 She is far from pride. Liars will not remember her. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 9:17–18
17 Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from on high? (WEB) 18 It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected, and men were taught the things that are pleasing to you. They were saved through wisdom.” (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 17:1–2
1 For your judgments are great, and hard to interpret; therefore undisciplined souls went astray. (WEB) 2 For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close ben… (WEB)
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