art righteous thyself, thou orderest
all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power
to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.

Wis 12:16
For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because
thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto
all.

Wis 12:17
For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power,
thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou
makest their boldness manifest.

Wis 12:18
But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and
orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when
thou wilt.

Wis 12:19
But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just
man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a
good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.

Wis 12:20
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the
condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and
place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

Wis 12:21
With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own
sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of
good promises?

Wis 12:22
Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our
enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we
judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we
ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy.

Wis 12:23
Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and
unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own
abominations.

Wis 12:24
For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held
them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were
despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding.

Wis 12:25
Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of
reason, thou didst send a judgment to mock them.

Wis 12:26
But they that would not be reformed by that correction,
wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of
God.

Wis 12:27
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were
punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now]
being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him
to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and
therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

Wis 13:1
Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God,
and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that
is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the