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Wisdom 16:15-17
Wycliffe Bible
Wisdom 16:15-17
Wycliffe Bible
15 but it is impossible to escape thine hand.
16 For why wicked men, denying to know thee, were tormented by the strength of thine arm; they suffered persecution by new waters, and hails, and rains, and were wasted by fire. [Unpious men forsooth, denying to have known thee, by the strength of thine arm be scourged; with new waters, and hails, and rains, they suffered persecution, and by fire be wasted.]
17 For why that was wonderful, the fire had more might in the water, that quencheth all things; for why the world was (a)venger of (or for) just [or rightwise] men.
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2001 by Terence P. Noble