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Wisdom 11:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" which had power not only to consume them by their violence, but to destroy them even by the terror of their sight. "
Wisdom 11:19
Verse in Context
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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,
18 or newly-created and unknown wild beasts, full of rage, either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, or belching out smoke, or flashing dreadful sparks from their eyes;
19 which had power not only to consume them by their violence, but to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.
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.
21 For to be greatly strong is yours at all times. Who could withstand the might of your arm?
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Wisdom 11:1
"Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet."
Wisdom 11:2
"They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions."
Wisdom 11:3
"They withstood enemies and repelled foes."
Wisdom 11:4
"They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone."
Wisdom 11:5
"For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited."
Wisdom 11:6
"When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,"
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