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It is your will that works of your wisdom should not be without effect; therefore people trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
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but it is your providence, O Father, that steers its course, because you have given it a path in the sea, and a safe way through the waves,
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showing that you can save from every danger, so that even a person who lacks skill may put to sea.
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It is your will that works of your wisdom should not be without effect; therefore people trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
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For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft, and guided by your hand left to the world the seed of a new generation.
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For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes.
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