# Wisdom of Solomon 12:20

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
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- Book: [Wisdom of Solomon](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom)
- Chapter: [Wisdom of Solomon 12](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom/12)
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For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice: