Wisdom 8:8
Good News Translation
Do you want to have wide experience? Wisdom knows the lessons of history and can anticipate the future. She knows how to interpret what people say and how to solve problems. She knows the miracles that God will perform, and how the movements of history will develop.

Contemporary English Version
Do you desire wide experience? Wisdom knows what has happened and predicts the future; she knows the meaning of words and the answers to riddles. Wisdom knows in advance the miracles God will work and all that will take place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

Wisdom 8:7
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 8:9
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.

Wisdom 8:10
For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:

Context
Wisdom 8
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. 9I 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.…
Cross References
Wisdom 8:6
And if sense do work: who is a more artful worker than she of those things that are?

Wisdom 8:7
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 8:9
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.

Wisdom 8:10
For her sake I shall have glory among the multitude, and honour with the ancients, though I be young:



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 8:7
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