4 When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood, wisdom again saved it, guiding the righteous man’s course by a paltry piece of wood. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 10:4
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Wisdom of Solomon 14:5–7
5 It is your will that the works of your wisdom should not be ineffective. Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land. (WEB) 6 For in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing,… (WEB) 7 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:30–32
30 O you nobler in endurance than males, and more courageous than men in perseverance! (WEB) 31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, (WEB) 32 so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emo… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 9:17–18
17 Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from on high? (WEB) 18 It was thus that the ways of those who are on earth were corrected, and men were taught the things that are pleasing to you. They were saved through wisdom.” (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:1–2
1 Again, one preparing to sail, and about to journey over raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the vessel that carries him. (WEB) 2 For the hunger for profit planned it, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it. (WEB)
2 Peter 2:4–6
4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preache…
James 3:3–5
3 When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole animal. 4 Consider ships as well. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot is inclined. 5 In the sam…
Book of Enoch 65:1–2
1 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. (ENO) 2 And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me… (ENO)
Sirach 38:4–6
4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth. A prudent man will not despise them. (WEB) 5 Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known? (WEB) 6 He gave men skill that he might be glorified in his marvelous works. (WEB)
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