Book of WISDOM seems to pardon and excuse from any fault the Patriarch JACOB

 Wisdom 10 : 10 - 12

IECOT edition (2019, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart)

a just man flying

from the wrath of his

brother she (WISDOM)

guided on right paths.

She showed him the

majesty of God and

gave him the knowledge

of holy things.  She

made him prosper in his

hard labors and made 

his toil fruitful.  She

stood by him against the

greed of his oppressors

and made him rich.

She guarded him from his

enemies and protected him 

from the one who laid 

snares for him.

She judged in his favor

in a difficult struggle

so that he might learn that

piety [GREEK: eusebeia]is the most

powerful thing of all!

[an interesting re-reading of Jacob's

struggle with God at the brook Jabbok

Genesis 32:23 - 32]

"Godliness"/Piety is used in

the New Testament at I Timothy 3:16.

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We find ourselves at this tenth chapter 

of Wisdom with a real reinterpretation 

of the history of salvation.  Our sage 

avoids describing in detail or emphasizing 

too much God's direct interventions in 

history, as , for example, with the parting

of the waters of the sea. The sage prefers 

rather to highlight the mediation of wisdom.  

In contrast with the rereading of the Exodus 

events in Psalm 78 MT, our sage does NOT 

emphasize the people's sin but rather 

their justice and so the salvation

obtained by the people right from the story of

Adam. In this way, Israel's past, linked in a

literary way with the first part of Wisdom, 

becomes at the same time, an explanation of 

the present situation of the people together 

with a foundation for the future. . .

Future salvation is founded

on the history of the past.