CHAP. XI.
Other benefits of wisdom to
the people of God.
1 She prospered their works
in the hands of note the
holy prophet.
2 They went through wildernesses,
that were not inhabited,
and in desart places they
pitched their tents.
3 They stood against note
their enemies, and revenged
-- --
themselves of their adversaries.
4 They were thirsty, and
they called upon thee, and
water was given them out of
the high rock, and a refreshment
of their thirst out of the
hard stone.
5 For note by what things their
enemies were punished, when
their drink failed them, while
the children of Israel abounded
therewith and rejoiced;
6 By the same things they
in their need were benefited.
7 For instead of a fountain
of an ever-running river, thou
gavest human blood to the
unjust.
8 And whilst they were
diminished for a manifest reproof
of their murdering the
infants, thou gavest to thine
abundant water unlooked for:
9 Shewing by the thirst,
that was then, how thou didst
exalt thine, and didst kill their
adversaries.
10 For when they were
tried, and chastised with mercy,
they knew how the wicked
were judged with wrath
and tormented.
11 For thou didst admonish
and try them as a father: but
the others, as a severe king, thou
didst examine and condemn.
12 For whether absent or
present, they were tormented
alike.
13 For a double affliction
came upon them, and a
groaning for the remembrance
of things past.
14 For when they heard
that note by their punishments
the others were benefited, they
remembered the Lord, wondering
at the end of what was
come to pass.
15 For whom they scorned
before, when he was thrown
out, at the time of his being
wickedly exposed to perish,
him they admired in the end,
when they saw the event:
their thirsting being unlike to
that of the just.
16 But for the foolish devices
of their iniquity, because
some being deceived worshipped
dumb serpents, and worthless
-- --
beasts, thou didst send upon
them a multitude of note
dumb beasts for vengeance:
17 That they might know
that, by what things a man
sinneth, by the same also he
is tormented.
18 For thy almighty hand,
which made the world of matter
without form, was not unable
to send upon them a multitude
of bears, or fierce lions,
19 Or unknown beasts of
a new kind, full of rage; either
breathing out a fiery vapour,
or sending forth a stinking
smoke, or shooting horrible
sparks out of their eyes:
20 Whereof not only the
hurt might be able to destroy
them, but also the very sight
might kill them through fear.
21 Yea and without these,
they might have been slain
with one blast, persecuted by
their own deeds, and scattered
by the breath of thy power:
but thou hast ordered all things
in measure, and number, and
weight.
22 For great power always
belonged to thee alone:
and who shall resist the strength
of thy arm?
23 For the whole world
before thee is as the least grain
of the balance, and as a drop
of the morning dew, that falleth
down upon the earth.
24 But thou hast mercy upon
all, because thou canst do
all things, and winkest at the
sins of men for the sake of repentance.
25 For thou lovest all
things that are, and hatest none
of the things which thou hast
made: for thou didst not appoint,
or make any thing hating
it.
26 And how could any
thing endure, if thou wouldst
not? or be preserved, if not
called by thee?
27 But thou sparest all:
because they are thine. O Lord,
who lovest souls.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
