Wisdom 14:1–9
1Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the vessel that carries him.↗
2For the hunger for profit planned it, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it.↗
3Your providence, O Father, guides it along, because even in the sea you gave a way, and in the waves a sure path,↗
4showing that you can save out of every danger, that even a man without skill may put to sea.↗
5It is your will that the works of your wisdom should not be ineffective. Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land.↗
6For in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft, your hand guided the seed of generations of the race of men.↗
7For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness;↗
8but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it; because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was called a god.↗
9For both the ungodly and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God;↗
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