Wisdom 11
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Wisdom of Solomon 11
Wisdom Led the Israelites through the Desert
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Deut 18.18; 34.10 Wisdom#11.1 Gk She prospered their works by the hand of a holy prophet.
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Ex 16.1; Deut 32.10 They journeyed through an uninhabited wilderness
and pitched their tents in untrodden places.
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Ex 17.10–13
They withstood their enemies and fought off their foes.
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Ex 17.6; Num 20.11; Deut 8.15; Ps 114.8 When they were thirsty, they called upon you,
and water was given them out of flinty rock
and from hard stone a remedy for their thirst.
5For through the very things by which their enemies were punished,
they themselves received benefit in their need.
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Ex 7.17
Instead of the fountain of an ever-flowing river,
stirred up and defiled with blood
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Ex 1.16, 22; Wis 18.5 in rebuke for the decree to kill the infants,
you gave them abundant water unexpectedly,
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Ex 7.20
showing by their thirst at that time
how you punished their enemies.
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v 6
; Wis 16.3, 4For when they were tried, though they were being disciplined in mercy,
they learned how the ungodly were tormented when judged in wrath.
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Deut 8.5; Wis 16.6; Heb 12.7 For you tested them as a parent#11.10 Gk a father does in warning,
but you examined the ungodly#11.10 Gk those as a stern king does in condemnation.
11Whether absent or present, they were equally distressed,
12for a twofold grief possessed them
and a groaning at the memory of what had occurred.
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Ex 8.8–19
For when they heard that through their own punishments
the righteous#11.13 Gk they had received benefit, they perceived it was the Lord’s doing.
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Ex 2.3
For though they had mockingly rejected him who long before had been cast out and exposed,
at the end of the events they marveled at him,
when they felt thirst in a different way from the righteous.
Punishment of the Wicked
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Ex 8.2, 17, 24; Wis 16.1; 17.9 In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts,
which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals,
you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,
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Wis 12.23, 24, 27; 16.1 so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.
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Gn 1.2; Wis 12.9; Sir 39.30 For your all-powerful hand,
which created the world out of formless matter,
did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears or bold lions
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Job 41.19, 20; Wis 16.5 or newly created unknown beasts full of rage
or such as breathe out fiery breath
or belch forth a thick pall of smoke
or flash terrible sparks from their eyes;
19not only could the harm they did destroy people,#11.19 Gk them
but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
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2 Esd 4.36, 37 Even apart from these, people#11.20 Gk they could fall at a single breath
when pursued by justice
and scattered by the breath of your power.
But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
God Is Powerful and Merciful
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2 Chr 20.6
For it is always in your power to show great strength,
and who can withstand the might of your arm?
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Isa 40.15; Hos 6.4; 13.3 Because the whole world before you is like a speck that tips the scales
and like a drop of morning dew that falls on the ground.
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Sir 18.13; Acts 17.30; 2 Pet 3.9 But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things,
and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent.
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Ps 145.9
For you love all things that exist
and detest none of the things that you have made,
for you would not have formed anything if you had hated it.
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Rom 4.17
How would anything have endured if you had not willed it?
Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
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Wis 12.8, 16, 18 You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living.
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