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Wisdom of Solomon 1
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1Love righteousness, you⌃ that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him.
1Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord with a good mind. Seek him in singleness of heart,
2For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and shows himself to such as do not distrust him.
2because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test, and is manifested to those who trust him.
3For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproves the unwise.
3for crooked thoughts separate from God. His Power convicts when it is tested, and exposes the foolish;
4For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject to sin.
4because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, nor dwell in a body that is enslaved by sin.
5For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness comes in.
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.
6For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
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.
7For the Spirit of the Lord fills the world: and that which contains all things has knowledge of the voice.
7Because the spirit of the Lord has filled the world, and that which holds all things together knows what is said.
8Therefore he that speaks unrighteous things can’t be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punishes, pass by him .
8Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen; neither will Justice, when it convicts, pass him by.
9For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come to the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds.
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;
10For the ear of jealousy hears all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.
10because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.
11Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nothing: and the mouth that belies slays the soul.
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.
12Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
12Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;
13For God made not death: neither has he pleasure in the destruction of the living .
13because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish.
14For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:
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;
15(For righteousness is immortal:)
15for righteousness is immortal,
16But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nothing, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.
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.