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.
Patristic commentary has not yet been attached to Wisdom. The full corpus of the Fathers remains searchable in the Fathers Library.
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;