Wisdom 16:2
Good News Translation
But you, O Lord, did not punish your people in this way; instead, you showed them kindness. You sent them quails to eat, a rare, delicious food to satisfy their hunger.

New Revised Standard Version
Instead of this punishment you showed kindness to your people, and you prepared quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite;

Contemporary English Version
But you did not punish your own people. Instead, you treated them with kindness and sent tasty quails for them to eat and enjoy.

New American Bible
Instead of this punishment, you benefited your people with a novel dish, the delight they craved, by providing quail for their food,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

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Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.

Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Wisdom 16:3
To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

Wisdom 16:4
For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

Context
Wisdom 16
1For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts. 2Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat: 3To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.…
Cross References
Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.

Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Wisdom 16:3
To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

Wisdom 16:4
For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:1
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