Wisdom of Solomon 1 — WEBC
1Verse 1Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth.Think of the Lord+with a good mind.Seek him in singleness of heart,Verse 2because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test,
and is manifested to those who trust him.Verse 3for crooked thoughts separate from God.His Power convicts when it is tested,
and exposes the foolish;Verse 4because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil,nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.Verse 5For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit,and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding,
and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.Verse 6For+wisdom is a spirit who loves man,and she will not hold a+blasphemer guiltless for his lips,
because God is witness of his inmost self,
and is a true overseer of his heart,
and a hearer of his tongue.Verse 7Because the spirit of the Lord has filled+the world,and that which holds all things together knows what is said.Verse 8Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen;neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.Verse 9For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out,and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;Verse 10because a jealous ear listens to all things,and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.Verse 11Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,and keep your tongue from slander;
because no secret utterance will go on its way void,
and a lying mouth destroys a soul.Verse 12Don’t court death in the error of your life.Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;
Verse 13because God didn’t make death,
neither does he delight when the living perish.Verse 14For he created all things that they might have being.The generative powers of the world are wholesome,
and there is no poison of destruction in them,
nor has Hades+royal dominion upon earth;Verse 15for righteousness is immortal,Verse 16but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death;
deeming him a friend they+pined away.They made a covenant with him,because they are worthy to belong with him.
and is manifested to those who trust him.Verse 3for crooked thoughts separate from God.His Power convicts when it is tested,
and exposes the foolish;Verse 4because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil,nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.Verse 5For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit,and will depart from thoughts that are without understanding,
and will be ashamed when unrighteousness has come in.Verse 6For+wisdom is a spirit who loves man,and she will not hold a+blasphemer guiltless for his lips,
because God is witness of his inmost self,
and is a true overseer of his heart,
and a hearer of his tongue.Verse 7Because the spirit of the Lord has filled+the world,and that which holds all things together knows what is said.Verse 8Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen;neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.Verse 9For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out,and the sound of his words will come to the Lord to bring his lawless deeds to conviction;Verse 10because a jealous ear listens to all things,and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.Verse 11Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,and keep your tongue from slander;
because no secret utterance will go on its way void,
and a lying mouth destroys a soul.Verse 12Don’t court death in the error of your life.Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;
Verse 13because God didn’t make death,
neither does he delight when the living perish.Verse 14For he created all things that they might have being.The generative powers of the world are wholesome,
and there is no poison of destruction in them,
nor has Hades+royal dominion upon earth;Verse 15for righteousness is immortal,Verse 16but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death;
deeming him a friend they+pined away.They made a covenant with him,because they are worthy to belong with him.