Wisdom of Solomon 9-12

Chapter 9

O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who has made all things with Thy word, 2 And ordained man through Thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which Thou has made, 3 And order the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgment with an upright heart: 4 Give me wisdom, that sits by Thy throne; and reject me not from among Thy children: 5 For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgment and laws. 6 For though a man be never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded. 7 Thou has chosen me to be a king of Thy people, and a judge of Thy sons and daughters: 8 Thou has commanded me to build a temple upon Thy holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein Thou dwell, a resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which Thou has prepared from the beginning. 9 And wisdom was with thee: which knows thy works, and was present when thou made the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments. 10 O send her out of Thy holy heavens, and from the throne of Thy glory, that being present she may labor with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto Thee. 11 For she knows and understands all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power. 12 So shall my works be acceptable, and then shall I judge Thy people righteously, and be worthy to sit in my father’s seat.

13 For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is? 14 For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. 15 For the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses upon many things. 16 And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labor do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who has searched out? 17 And Thy counsel who has known, except Thou give wisdom, and send Thy Holy Spirit from above? 18 For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto Thee, and were saved through wisdom.

Chapter 10

She preserved the first-formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall, 2 And gave him power to rule all things. 3 But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother. 4 For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value. 5 Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

6 When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities. 7 Of whose wickedness even to this day the wasteland that smokes is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul. 8 For regarding not wisdom, they got not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid. 9 But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

10 When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, showed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labors. 11 In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich. 12 She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

13 When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit, 14 And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the scepter of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she showed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

15 She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them. 16 She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs; 17 Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labors, guided them in a marvelous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season; 18 Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water: 19 But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep. 20 Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised Thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord Thine hand, that fought for them. 21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

Chapter 11

She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet. 2 They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way. 3 They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries. 4 When they were thirsty, they called upon Thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone. 5 For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited. 6 For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood, 7 For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gave unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for: 8 Declaring by that thirst then how thou had punished their adversaries. 9 For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just. 10 For these Thou did admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, Thou did condemn and punish. 11 Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike. 12 For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past. 13 For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord. 14 For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

15 But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou did send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance; 16 That they might know, that wherewithal a man sins, by the same also shall he be punished. 17 For Thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions, 18 Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapor, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes: 19 Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them. 20 Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the breath of Thy power: but Thou has ordered all things in measure and number and weight.

21 For Thou can show Thy great strength at all times when Thou will; and who may withstand the power of Thine arm? 22 For the whole world before Thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falls down upon the earth. 23 But Thou has mercy upon all; for Thou can do all things, and wink at the sins of men, because they should amend. 24 For Thou love all the things that are, and abhor nothing which Thou has made: for never would Thou have made anything, if Thou had hated it. 25 And how could anything have endured, if it had not been Thy will? or been preserved, if not called by Thee? 26 But Thou spare all: for they are Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls.

Chapter 12

For Thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things. 2 Therefore chasten thou them by little and little that offend, and warn them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on Thee, O Lord. 3 For it was Thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of Thy holy land, 4 Whom Thou hated for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices; 5 And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood, 6 With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help: 7 That the land, which Thou esteemed above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children. 8 Nevertheless even those Thou spared as men, and did send wasps, forerunners of Thine host, to destroy them by little and little. 9 Not that Thou was unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word: 10 But executing Thy judgments upon them by little and little, thou gave them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed. 11 For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither did thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.

12 For who shall say, What has thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall accuse thee for the nations that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against thee, to be revenged for the unrighteous men? 13 For neither is there any God but Thou that cares for all, to whom Thou might show that Thy judgment is not unright. 14 Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against Thee for any whom Thou has punished. 15 Forsomuch then as Thou are righteous Thyself, Thou order all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with Thy power to condemn him that has not deserved to be punished. 16 For Thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because Thou are the Lord of all, it makes Thee to be gracious unto all. 17 For when men will not believe that Thou are of a full power, Thou show Thy strength, and among them that know it Thou make their boldness manifest. 18 But Thou, mastering Thy power, judge with equity, and order us with great favor: for Thou may use power when Thou will.

19 But by such works has Thou taught Thy people that the just man should be merciful, and has made Thy children to be of a good hope that Thou give repentance for sins. 20 For if Thou did punish the enemies of Thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice: 21 With how great circumspection did thou judge Thine own sons, unto whose fathers Thou has sworn, and made covenants of good promises? 22 Therefore, whereas Thou do chasten us, Thou scourge our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we should carefully think of Thy goodness, and when we ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy. 23 Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, Thou has tormented them with their own abominations. 24 For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding. 25 Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of reason, Thou did send a judgment to mock them. 26 But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God. 27 For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

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