Wisdom 11:23
Good News Translation
You are powerful enough to do anything, but you are merciful to everyone; you overlook our sins and give us time to repent.

New Revised Standard Version
But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent.

Contemporary English Version
You can do anything, and yet you patiently show mercy to everyone, so that they will turn from their sins.

New American Bible
Indeed, before you the whole universe is like a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth.

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For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth.

Wisdom 11:21
Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.

Wisdom 11:22
For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm?

Wisdom 11:24
But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.

Wisdom 11:25
For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.

Context
Wisdom 11
22For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm? 23For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth. 24But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.…
Cross References
Wisdom 11:21
Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.

Wisdom 11:22
For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm?

Wisdom 11:24
But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance.

Wisdom 11:25
For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 11:22
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