Wisdom
Old Testament · 19 chapters · 436 verses
Every chapter of Wisdom is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 436 verses in 19 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
1 Church Father comments on Wisdom in this edition: Saint Maximus the Confessor. Their commentary appears on the chapter it explains.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- Wisdom 1 Love righteousness, you that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him.
- Wisdom 2 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither…
- Wisdom 3 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
- Wisdom 4 Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
- Wisdom 5 Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labors.
- Wisdom 6 Hear therefore, O you kings, and understand; learn, you that be judges of the ends of the earth.
- Wisdom 7 I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
- Wisdom 8 Wisdom reaches from one end to another mightily: and sweetly does she order all things.
- Wisdom 9 O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who have made all things with your word,
- Wisdom 10 She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
- Wisdom 11 She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.
- Wisdom 12 For your incorruptible Spirit is in all things.
- Wisdom 13 Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by…
- Wisdom 14 Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass through the raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carries…
- Wisdom 15 But you, O God, are gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things,
- Wisdom 16 Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented.
- Wisdom 17 For great are your judgments, and can’t be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.
- Wisdom 18 Nevertheless your saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same…
- Wisdom 19 As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy to the end: for he knew before what they would do;