Wisdom 4:5
Good News Translation
Their branches snap off before they mature; their fruit never ripens, and it is good for nothing.

New Revised Standard Version
The branches will be broken off before they come to maturity, and their fruit will be useless, not ripe enough to eat, and good for nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Their branches will be broken before they mature, and the fruit they produce will be worthless.

New American Bible
Their twigs shall be broken off untimely, their fruit useless, unripe for eating, fit for nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.

Wisdom 4:3
But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.

Wisdom 4:4
And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.

Wisdom 4:6
For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

Wisdom 4:7
But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.

Context
Wisdom 4
4And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out. 5For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing. 6For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.…
Cross References
Wisdom 4:3
But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.

Wisdom 4:4
And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.

Wisdom 4:6
For the children that are born of unlawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

Wisdom 4:7
But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

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