Wisdom 11:10–18
10For you tested these as a father admonishing them; but you searched out those as a stern king condemning them.↗
11Yes and whether they were far off or near, they were equally distressed;↗
12for a double grief seized them, and a groaning at the memory of things past.↗
13For when they heard that through their own punishments the others benefited, they recognized the Lord.↗
14For him who long before was thrown out and exposed they stopped mocking. In the end of what happened, they marveled, having thirsted in another manner than the righteous.↗
15But in return for the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness, wherein they were led astray to worship irrational reptiles and wretched vermin, you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,↗
16that they might learn that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.↗
17For your all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions,↗
18or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage, either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, or belching out smoke, or flashing dreadful sparks from their eyes;↗
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