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Wisdom 14:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Wisdom 14:5
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3 Your providence, O Father, guides it along, because even in the sea you gave a way, and in the waves a sure path,
4 showing that you can save out of every danger, that even a man without skill may put to sea.
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.
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.
7 For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness;
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Wisdom 14:1
"Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the vessel that carries him."
Wisdom 14:2
"For the hunger for profit planned it, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it."
Wisdom 14:3
"Your providence, O Father, guides it along, because even in the sea you gave a way, and in the waves a sure path,"
Wisdom 14:4
"showing that you can save out of every danger, that even a man without skill may put to sea."
Wisdom 14:6
"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."
Wisdom 14:7
"For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness;"
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