4 showing that you can save out of every danger, that even a man without skill may put to sea. (WEB) 5 It is your will that the works of your wisdom should not be ineffective. Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land. (WEB) 6 For in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft, your hand guided the seed of generations of the race of men. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:4–6
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