Wisdom 11:5
Good News Translation
The disasters that punished the Egyptians saved your people when they were in trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
For through the very things by which their enemies were punished, they themselves received benefit in their need.

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord, your people were helped by the same disasters that were used to punish their enemies.

New American Bible
For by the things through which their foes were punished they in their need were benefited.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced:

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For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced:

Wisdom 11:3
They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries.

Wisdom 11:4
They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.

Wisdom 11:6
By the same things they in their need were benefited.

Wisdom 11:7
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.

Context
Wisdom 11
4They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. 5For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: 6By the same things they in their need were benefited.…
Cross References
Wisdom 11:3
They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries.

Wisdom 11:4
They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.

Wisdom 11:6
By the same things they in their need were benefited.

Wisdom 11:7
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 11:4
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