lory.

10:15. She delivered the just people, and blameless seed, from the
nations that oppressed them.

10:16. She entered into the soul of the servant of God and stood against
dreadful kings in wonders and signs.

The servant of God... Viz., Moses.

10:17. And she rendered to the just the wages of their labours, and
conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by
day, and for the light of stars by night:

10:18. And she brought them through the Red Sea, and carried them over
through a great water.

10:19. But their enemies she drowned in the sea, and from the depth of
hell she brought them out. Therefore the just took the spoils of the
wicked.

10:20. And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one
accord thy victorious hand.

10:21. For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of
infants eloquent.

Wisdom Chapter 11

Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God.

11:1. She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet.

The holy prophet... Moses.

11:2. They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in
desert places they pitched their tents.

11:3. They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their
adversaries.

Their enemies... The Amalecites.

11:4. They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given
them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the
hard stone.

11:5. For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink
failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and
rejoiced:

By what things, etc... The meaning is, that God, who wrought a miracle
to punish the Egyptians by thirst, when he turned all their waters into
blood, (at which time the Israelites, who were exempt from those
plagues, had plenty of water,) wrought another miracle in favour of his
own people in their thirst, by giving them water out of the rock.

11:6. By the same things they in their need were benefited.

11:7. For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest
human blood to the unjust.

11:8. And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their
murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

11:9. Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine,
and didst kill their adversaries.

11:10. For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how
the wicked were judged with wrath,