Wisdom 10:6
Good News Translation
Wisdom rescued a righteous man while ungodly people were dying. He escaped the flames that destroyed the Five Cities.

New Revised Standard Version
Wisdom rescued a righteous man when the ungodly were perishing; he escaped the fire that descended on the Five Cities.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom rescued the good man Lot, when the ungodly people of those five cities died in the flames.

New American Bible
She rescued a righteous man from among the wicked who were being destroyed, when he fled as fire descended upon the Pentapolis—

Douay-Rheims Bible
She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

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She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

Wisdom 10:4
For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.

Wisdom 10:5
Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son.

Wisdom 10:7
Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.

Wisdom 10:8
For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.

Context
Wisdom 10
5Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son. 6She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis: 7Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.…
Cross References
Wisdom 10:4
For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.

Wisdom 10:5
Moreover, when the nations had conspired together to consent to wickedness, she knew the just, and preserved him without blame to God, and kept him strong against the compassion for his son.

Wisdom 10:7
Whose land, for a testimony of their wickedness, is desolate, and smoketh to this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.

Wisdom 10:8
For regarding not wisdom, they did not only slip in this, that they were ignorant of good things; but they left also unto men a memorial of their folly, so that in the things in which they sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 10:5
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