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Wisdom 14:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness; "

Wisdom 14:7

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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;

8 but the idol made with hands is accursed, itself and he that made it; because his was the working, and the corruptible thing was called a god.

9 For both the ungodly and his ungodliness are alike hateful to God;

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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 14:5

"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."

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."

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