Wisdom 11:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just.

¹⁶ But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance.

¹⁷ That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.