Wisdom 10:7
Good News Translation
You can still see the evidence of their wickedness. The land there is barren and smoking. The plants bear fruit that never ripens, and a pillar of salt stands as a monument to one who did not believe.

New Revised Standard Version
Evidence of their wickedness still remains: a continually smoking wasteland, plants bearing fruit that does not ripen, and a pillar of salt standing as a monument to an unbelieving soul.

Contemporary English Version
The evidence of their evil can still be seen--the smoke that keeps rising from the desert, those trees with fruit that never ripens, and the pillar of salt that stands as a witness to Lot's wife, who refused to believe.

New American Bible
Where as a testimony to its wickedness, even yet there remain a smoking desert, Plants bearing fruit that never ripens, and the tomb of a disbelieving soul, a standing pillar of salt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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 10:5
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 10:6
She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

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.

Wisdom 10:9
But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her.

Context
Wisdom 10
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. 8For 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.…
Cross References
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 10:6
She delivered the just man, who fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down upon Pentapolis:

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.

Wisdom 10:9
But wisdom hath delivered from sorrow them that attend upon her.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 10:6
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