Wis 11:1 

She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet. 

Wis 11:2 

They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and 

pitched tents in places where there lay no way. 

Wis 11:3 

They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their 

adversaries. 

Wis 11:4 

When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was 

given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched 

out of the hard stone. 

Wis 11:5 

For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same 

they in their need were benefited. 

Wis 11:6 

For instead of of a perpetual running river troubled with 

foul blood, 

Wis 11:7 

For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the 

infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by 

a means which they hoped not for: 

Wis 11:8 

Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their 

adversaries. 

Wis 11:9 

For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they 

knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, 

thirsting in another manner than the just. 

Wis 11:10 

For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the 

other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish. 

Wis 11:11 

Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike. 

Wis 11:12 

For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the 

remembrance of things past. 

Wis 11:13 

For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be 

benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord. 

Wis 11:14 

For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before 

thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, 

when they saw what came to pass, they admired. 

Wis 11:15 

But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith 

being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile 

beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon 

them for vengeance; 

Wis 11:16 

That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the 

same also shall he be punished. 

Wis 11:17 

For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without 

form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears 

or fierce lions, 

Wis 11:18 

Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, 

breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of 

scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their 

eyes: 

Wis 11:19 

Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but 

also the terrible sight utterly destroy them. 

Wis 11:20 

Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one 

blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad 

through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all 

things in measure and number and weight. 

Wis 11:21 

For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou 

wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm? 

Wis 11:22 

For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the 

balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down 

upon the earth. 

Wis 11:23 

But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, 

and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend. 

Wis 11:24 

For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest 

nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made 

any thing, if thou hadst hated it. 

Wis 11:25 

And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy 

will? or been preserved, if not called by thee? 

Wis 11:26 

But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover 

of souls.