The King James Version Bible

Wisdom of Solomon 11:3-7

  1. They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.

  2. When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.

  3. For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.

  4. For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,

  5. For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for: