Good News Translation
These are holy matters, and if you treat them in a holy manner, you yourselves will be considered holy. If you have learned this lesson, you will be able to defend yourselves at the Judgment.

Contemporary English Version
If you want to belong to the Lord's holy people and to defend yourself on the day of judgment,

Douay-Rheims Bible
To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it.

To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it.

Wisdom 6:8
For God will not except any man's person, neither will he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all.

Wisdom 6:9
But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.

Wisdom 6:11
For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.

Wisdom 6:12
Covet ye, therefore, my words, and love them, and you shall have instruction.