Wisdom 12:12
Good News Translation
You created those wicked people, and no one can speak in their defense or condemn you for destroying them. No one can question what you have done or challenge your judgment.

Contemporary English Version
All of us are merely human, and we cannot question what you have done, nor can we refuse to let you punish us. No one would dare to blame you for destroying those nations you created or dare to defend the guilty in your court of law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ?

Wisdom 12:10
But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.

Wisdom 12:11
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.

Wisdom 12:13
For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.

Wisdom 12:14
Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed.

Context
Wisdom 12
11For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins. 12For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ? 13For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.…
Cross References
Wisdom 12:10
But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.

Wisdom 12:11
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.

Wisdom 12:13
For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.

Wisdom 12:14
Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 12:11
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