Wisdom 19:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, nor did they melt the crystalline, easily melted kind of heavenly food.

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Common English Bible

²¹ Flames no longer burned the exposed flesh of living beings, who were able to walk through the flames. Flames didn’t even melt the frostlike crystals that were a kind of food of everlasting life.

Good News Translation (US Version)

²¹ And yet the flames could not burn the flesh of the perishable creatures walking in them and did not melt that heavenly food that would ordinarily have melted like frost.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

²¹ On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, neither did they melt the crystalline grains of ambrosial food that were melted easily.

Wisdom 19:21 Cross References