Wisdom 1:12
Good News Translation
Do not bring on your own death by sinful actions.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not invite death by the error of your life, or bring on destruction by the works of your hands;

Contemporary English Version
Don't invite death and destruction by living like a fool.

New American Bible
Do not court death by your erring way of life, nor draw to yourselves destruction by the works of your hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands.

Wisdom 1:10
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.

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.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 1:11
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