Wisdom 5:5
Good News Translation
And now here he is, one of God's own children, with a place of his own among God's people.

New Revised Standard Version
Why have they been numbered among the children of God? And why is their lot among the saints?

Contemporary English Version
Why are they God's children? Why are they his holy people?

New American Bible
See how he is accounted among the heavenly beings; how his lot is with the holy ones!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.

Wisdom 5:3
Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach.

Wisdom 5:4
We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.

Wisdom 5:6
Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.

Wisdom 5:7
We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known.

Context
Wisdom 5
4We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. 5Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints. 6Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.…
Cross References
Wisdom 5:3
Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and for a parable of reproach.

Wisdom 5:4
We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.

Wisdom 5:6
Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.

Wisdom 5:7
We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

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