Pentecost Season · Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time · Year C
Wisdom 9:13-18b
Who Can Know the Counsel of God?
September 10, 2028
Overview & Insights
"Who can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills?" (Wisdom 9:13)
Solomon's prayer for wisdom confesses that human reasoning alone cannot grasp God's plans, since even earthly things are barely worked out with difficulty, and asks God to send holy Wisdom from heaven to guide and save.
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Commentary
Wisdom 9 (Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary) StudyLight
The main verse-by-verse Catholic commentary available online for this deuterocanonical chapter.
Wisdom of Solomon 9 BibleHub
Lays the Greek and English text of the chapter side by side for word study.
Wisdom 9 (Haydock) Haydock Commentary
A classic Douay-Rheims Catholic commentary, one of the few that treats the deuterocanonical books verse by verse.
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