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   The Book of Wisdom
Chapter 1 - An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desireth not our death. Chapter 2 - The vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just, especially the Son of God. Chapter 3 - The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked. Chapter 4 - The difference between the chaste and the adulterous generations: and between the death of the just and the wicked. Chapter 5 - The fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of the just. Chapter 6 - An address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by those that seek her. Chapter 7 - The excellence of wisdom: how she is to be found. Chapter 8 - Further praises of wisdom: and her fruits. Chapter 9 - Solomon's prayer for wisdom. Chapter 10 - What wisdom did for Adam, Noe, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the people of Israel. Chapter 11 - Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God. Chapter 12 - God's wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Chanaanites. Chapter 13 - Idolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods the works of the hands of men. Chapter 14 - The beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof. Chapter 15 - The servants of God praise him who hath delivered them from idolatry; condemning both the makers and the worshippers of idols. Chapter 16 - God's different dealings with the Egyptians and with his own people. Chapter 17 - The Egyptian darkness. Chapter 18 - The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron's intercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core. Chapter 19 - Why God shewed no mercy to the Egyptians. His favour to the Israelites. All creatures obey God's orders for the service of the good, and the punishment of the wicked.

 Haydock Commentary notes for The Book of Wisdom