Wisdom of Solomon 11:18-26
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18 Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:
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19 Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.
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20 Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.
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21 For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?
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22 For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.
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23 But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
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24 For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
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25 And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?
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26 But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.