Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Do not bring on your own death by sinful actions. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. Wisdom 1:10For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid. Wisdom 1:11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. Wisdom 1:13 For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. Wisdom 1:14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth. Context Wisdom 1…11Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. 12Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands. 13For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.… Cross References Wisdom 1:10 For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid. Wisdom 1:11 Keep yourselves, therefore, from murmuring, which profiteth nothing, and refrain your tongue from detraction, for an obscure speech shall not go for nought: and the mouth that belieth, killeth the soul. Wisdom 1:13 For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. Wisdom 1:14 For he created all things that they might be: and he made the nations of the earth for health: and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor kingdom of hell upon the earth. |