Wisdom 8:7
Good News Translation
Do you love justice? All the virtues are the result of Wisdom's work: justice and courage, self-control and understanding. Life can offer us nothing more valuable than these.

New Revised Standard Version
And if anyone loves righteousness, her labors are virtues; for she teaches self-control and prudence, justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these.

Contemporary English Version
If you truly love what is right, learn from her, the source of all goodness: of justice and courage, understanding and self-control; all the important things that help us live our lives.

New American Bible
Or if one loves righteousness, whose works are virtues, She teaches moderation and prudence, righteousness and fortitude, and nothing in life is more useful than these.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life.

Wisdom 8:5
And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things?

Wisdom 8:6
And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?

Wisdom 8:8
And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

Wisdom 8:9
I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.

Context
Wisdom 8
6And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are? 7And if a man love justice: her labours have great virtues: for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life. 8And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.…
Cross References
Wisdom 8:5
And if riches be desired in life, what is richer than wisdom, which maketh all things?

Wisdom 8:6
And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?

Wisdom 8:8
And if a man desire much knowledge: she knoweth things past, and judgeth of things to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and the solutions of arguments: she knoweth signs and wonders before they be done, and the events of times and ages.

Wisdom 8:9
I purposed, therefore, to take her to me to live with me: knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and grief.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 8:6
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