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Wisdom 11:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Wisdom 11:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Punishment of the Wicked
15 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,
16 so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.
17 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,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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