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indicating that you can save from every danger,
    so that even an inexperienced person can put out to sea.
It is your will that the works of your Wisdom should not be sterile;
    thus men entrust their lives even to the most fragile wood,
    and they safely reach land even after sailing through the waves on a raft.
For in the beginning, when arrogant giants were being destroyed,
    the hope of the world took refuge on a raft[a]
    and, guided by your hand, bequeathed to the world the seed of a new generation.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 14:6 Raft: i.e., Noah’s ark.