Wisdom 11:7
New Revised Standard Version
in rebuke for the decree to kill the infants, you gave them abundant water unexpectedly,

Contemporary English Version
to punish the Egyptians for ordering the Hebrew children to be killed, then you surprised everyone by providing your people with more than enough water to satisfy their thirst.

New American Bible
Instead of a river’s perennial source, troubled with impure blood

Douay-Rheims Bible
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.

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

Wisdom 11:5
For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced:

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

Wisdom 11:8
And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

Wisdom 11:9
Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.

Context
Wisdom 11
6By the same things they in their need were benefited. 7For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. 8And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:…
Cross References
Wisdom 11:5
For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced:

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

Wisdom 11:8
And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

Wisdom 11:9
Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 11:6
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