17 For your all-powerful hand that created the world out of formless matter didn’t lack means to send upon them a multitude of bears, fierce lions, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:17
Semantically similar passages
Wisdom of Solomon 12:8–10
8 Nevertheless you even spared these as men, and you sent hornets as forerunners of your army, to cause them to perish little by little. (WEB) 9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or by terrible beasts or by a stern… (WEB)
Psalms 78:48–50
48 He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning. 49 He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels. 50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered t…
Wisdom of Solomon 11:20–22
20 Yes and without these they might have fallen by a single breath, being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of your power; but you arranged all things by measure, number, and weight. (WEB) 21 For to be greatly strong is yours at all times. Who could w… (WEB)
Judith 16:13–15
13 “I will sing to my God a new song: O Lord, you are great and glorious, marvelous in strength, invincible. (WEB) 14 Let all your creation serve you; for you spoke, and they were made. You sent out your spirit, and it built them. There is no one who can resist your voice. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:23–25
23 and that this fire, again, in order that righteous people may be nourished, has even forgotten its own power. (WEB) 24 For the creation, ministering to you, its maker, strains its force against the unrighteous for punishment and in kindness, slackens it on behalf of th… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:1–2
1 For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin. (WEB) 2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the des… (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:7–9
7 Can one turn back an arrow that is shot by a strong archer? (WEB) 8 The Lord God sends the calamities, and who will drive them away? (WEB) 9 A fire will go out from his wrath, and who may quench it? (WEB)
Ezekiel 14:14–16
14 then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD. 15 Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of th…
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources