16 for ungodly men, refusing to know you, were scourged in the strength of your arm, pursued with strange rains and hails and relentless storms, and utterly consumed with fire. (WEB) 17 For, what was most marvelous, in the water which quenches all things, the fire burned hotter; for the world fights for the righteous. (WEB) 18 For at one time the flame was restrained, that it might not burn up the creatures sent against the ungodly, but that these themselves as they looked might see that they were chased by the judgment of God. (WEB) 19 At another time even in the midst of water it burns more intensely than fire, that it may destroy the produce of an unrighteous land. (WEB) 20 Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from heaven without toil, having the virtue of every pleasant flavor, and agreeable to every taste. (WEB) 21 For your nature showed your sweetness toward your children, while that bread, serving the desire of the eater, changed itself according to every man’s choice. (WEB) 22 But snow and ice endured fire, and didn’t melt, that people might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies, burning in the hail and flashing in the rains; (WEB) 23 and that this fire, again, in order that righteous people may be nourished, has even forgotten its own power. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:16–23
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