Bible Reading: Wisdom 10

Wisdom 10: 1-9

“Wisdom Preserves Her Followers”

She preserved the first-formed father of the
world
when he alone had been created;
And she raised him up from his fall,
and gave him power to rule all things.
But when the unjust man withdrew from her
in his anger,
he perished through his fratricidal wrath.
When on his account the earth was flooded,
Wisdom again saved it,
piloting the just man on frailest wood.
She, when the nations were sunk in universal
wickedness,
knew the just man, kept him blameless
before God,
and preserved him resolute against pity for
his child.
She delivered the just man from among the
wicked who were being destroyed,
when he fled as fire descended upon
Pentapolis-
Where as a testimony to its wickedness,
there yet remain a smoking desert,
Plants bearing fruit that never ripens,
and the tomb of a disbelieving soul, a
standing pillar of salt.
For those who forsook Wisdom
first were bereft of knowledge of the right,
And then they left mankind a memorial of
their folly-
so that they could not even be hidden in
their fall.
But Wisdom delivered from tribulations those
who served her.