This book is not inspired by God and is not part of the Christian canon or the Jewish Tanakh. It is shown only for historical and study purposes. View full explanation Wisdom 19:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition16 but these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them. See the chapterMore versionsCommon English Bible16 But these people first gave feasts to welcome those who did right and shared with them the blessings of the land. But then they began to force the strangers to do hard labor. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version16 Yet they were struck with blindness, like someone brought before the gates of justice, so that they were suddenly covered with darkness, and each one was left searching for the threshold of his front door. See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door. See the chapterGood News Translation (US Version)16 but these people, who had earlier welcomed the foreigners with happy celebrations and treated them as equals, later made them suffer cruelly. See the chapterWorld English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers16 because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights. See the chapter |