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)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:5
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Wisdom of Solomon 10:3–5
3 But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, he perished himself in the rage with which he killed his brother. (WEB) 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 o… (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)
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Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans 11:2–3
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4 Maccabees 7:2–4
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Wisdom of Solomon 9:17–18
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4 Maccabees 13:5–7
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