Wisdom 14:4-14

4 showing that thou canst save from every danger, so that even if a man lacks skill, he may put to sea.
5 It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
6 For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft, and guided by thy hand left to the world the seed of a new generation.
7 For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes.
8 But the idol made with hands is accursed, and so is he who made it; because he did the work, and the perishable thing was named a god.
9 For equally hateful to God are the ungodly man and his ungodliness,
10 for what was done will be punished together with him who did it.
11 Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, and became traps for the souls of men and a snare to the feet of the foolish.
12 For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life,
13 for neither have they existed from the beginning nor will they exist for ever.
14 For through the vanity of men they entered the world, and therefore their speedy end has been planned.
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