Wisdom 16:21
Good News Translation
All this showed how lovingly you care for your children. That food satisfied the desire of everyone who ate it; it was changed to suit each person's taste.

New Revised Standard Version
For your sustenance manifested your sweetness toward your children; and the bread, ministering to the desire of the one who took it, was changed to suit everyone’s liking.

Contemporary English Version
Your care for your people was as sweet as this bread that everyone enjoyed so much.

New American Bible
For this substance of yours revealed your sweetness toward your children, and serving the desire of the one who received it, was changed to whatever flavor each one wished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked.

Wisdom 16:19
And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

Wisdom 16:20
Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.

Wisdom 16:22
But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.

Wisdom 16:23
But this same again, that the just might be nourished, did even forget its own strength.

Context
Wisdom 16
20Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste. 21For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked. 22But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.…
Cross References
Wisdom 16:19
And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

Wisdom 16:20
Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.

Wisdom 16:22
But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.

Wisdom 16:23
But this same again, that the just might be nourished, did even forget its own strength.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:20
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