Wisdom 10

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King James Version

1She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

She — Wisdom — the divine Love-Wisdom of the Source, ordering all things — preserved the first formed father of the world, Adam, the Complete Man in his first state, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

2And gave him power to rule all things.

And gave him power to rule all things.

3But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

But when the unrighteous — Cain, the first claim of the sense-mind — went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

4For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.

For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood — the inundation of error that washes the old earth clean — Wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous — Noah, the still point of rest — in a piece of wood of small value, the Ark, the God-patterned consciousness that rides out the flood.

5Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded at Babel — confusion, self-exalting thought — she found out the righteous — Abraham, Faith itself — and preserved him blameless unto the Source, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

6When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities.

When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man — Lot, the veiled sense-consciousness — who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities, Sodom and its sister states given wholly to appetite.

7Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.

Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smokes is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt — affection crystallized by looking back — is a monument of an unbelieving soul-state.

8For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

For regarding not Wisdom, they got not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

9But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

But Wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

10When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

When the righteous — Jacob, the striving intellect — fled from his brother's wrath she guided him in right paths, showed him the kingdom of the Source — the reign of the divine order — and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

11In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich.

In the covetousness of such as oppressed him — Laban, the fair-seeming reasoning that bargains with the soul — she stood by him, and made him rich.

12She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict — the wrestling, the night-struggle of the soul with its own angel — she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

13When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,

When the righteous — Joseph, the Increase faculty — was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from error: she went down with him into the pit — the empty depth into which the dreamer is cast,

14And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she showed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

15She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.

She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them — Egypt, the material sense-realm, bondage to the outer.

16She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;

She entered into the soul of the servant of the LORD — Moses, the deliverer-lawgiver faculty, drawn out of the waters of sense — and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs — works in the outer that signify a greater work in the inner;

17Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;

Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season — the hidden state lit by fixed knowledges of truth;

18Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water:

Brought them through the Red Sea — the sea of sense-life at the edge of bondage, divided so the house passes through — and led them through much water:

19But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.

But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep — the subconscious depths.

20Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.

Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised Thy holy name, O LORD, and magnified with one accord Thine hand, that fought for them.

21For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

For Wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

Companion volume to The Why Bible — the King James Apocrypha, rendered in its spiritual meanings. First final edition, October 2026.