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Wisdom 9:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 9:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 to govern the world in holiness and righteousness,
and to mete out justice with an upright heart.
4 Grant me Wisdom, who sits beside your throne,[a]
and do not exclude me from the number of your children.
5 “For I am your servant and the son of your handmaid,
a weak man with but a short time to live
and with meager comprehension of justice and law.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 9:4 Wisdom, who sits beside your throne: it is from there that the word of judgment will be launched against Egypt (see Wis 18:15). God is conceived as a sovereign who, from his throne, creates the universe, governs and judges it; his Wisdom conceives and executes.
