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Wisdom of Solomon

Read the Wisdom of Solomon online — in praise of wisdom; the folly of idolatry exposed

19 chapters — your reading progress will grow here.

Chapters

1 Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart …

1 For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a …

1 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. 2 In the sight of the un…

1 Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with G…

1 Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no accoun…

1 Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth. 2 Give ear, ye that rul…

1 I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth, 2 And in my mot…

1 Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things. 2 I loved her, and sought her…

1 O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word, 2 And ordained man through thy wisdom,…

1 She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall, 2 And gav…

1 She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet. 2 They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, …

1 For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things. 2 Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, an…

1 Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know hi…

1 Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more ro…

1 But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things, 2 For if we sin, we are thine…

1 Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented. 2 Instead of which punish…

1 For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred. 2 For when unrighteous me…

1 Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they als…

1 As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end: for he knew before what they would do; 2 How that…