The Book of Wisdom or The Wisdom of Solomon 11

1She prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet. 2They journeyed through a desert without inhabitant, 3They withstood enemies, and repelled foes. Or, took vengeance on foes 4They thirsted, and they called upon you, the Or, the steep rock flinty rock, See Deuteronomy 8:15; Psalm 114:8. 5For by what things their foes were punished, 6When The text of this verse is perhaps corrupt. the enemy were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain, 7To rebuke the decree for the slaying of babes, 8Having shewn them by the thirst which they had suffered how you did punish the adversaries. Gr. the then thirst. 9For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastened, 10For these, as a father, admonishing them, you did prove; 11Yes and whether they were far off from the righteous or near them, they were alike distressed; 12For a double grief took hold on them, 13For when they heard that through their own punishments the others had been benefited, Some authorities read were being. the presence of the Lord; 14For him who long before was cast forth and exposed they left off mocking: Some authorities read cast forth in hatred they. they marveled, Or, they marveled at him 15But in requital of the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, 16That they might learn, that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished. 17For your all-powerful hand, 18Or new-created wild beasts, full of rage, Some authorities read unknown wild beasts, full of new-created rage. of unknown kind, from their nostrils noisome smoke, 19Which had power not only to consume them by their violence, Gr. harmfulness. 20Yes and without these might they have fallen by a single breath, 21For to be greatly strong is your at all times; 22Because the whole world before you is as a grain Gr. that which just turns. in a balance, Gr. from. 23But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, 24For you love all things that are, 25And how would anything have endured, except you had willed it? how would it have been preserved? 26But you spare all things, because they are your, men’s lives; Or, souls