Wisdom 16:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 in order that those people, when they desired food,
might lose the least remnant of appetite[a]
because of the odious creatures sent to them,
while your people,[b] after suffering want a short time,
might partake of delicacies.
4 For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inescapable want should come,
while to these others it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.
5 For when the terrible rage of wild animals came upon your people[c]
and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents,
your wrath did not continue to the end;
Footnotes
- Wisdom 16:3 Gk loathed the necessary appetite
- Wisdom 16:3 Gk they
- Wisdom 16:5 Gk them
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