r, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as
for their feet, they are slow to go.

Wis 15:16
For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit
fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

Wis 15:17
For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands:
for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth:
whereas he lived once, but they never.

Wis 15:18
Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful:
for being compared together, some are worse than others.

Wis 15:19
Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in
respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and
his blessing.

Wis 16:1
Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the
multitude of beasts tormented.

Wis 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing graciously with thine
own people, thou preparedst for them meat of a strange taste,
even quails to stir up their appetite:

Wis 16:3
To the end that they, desiring food, might for the ugly sight
of the beasts sent among them lothe even that, which they must
needs desire; but these, suffering penury for a short space,
might be made partakers of a strange taste.

Wis 16:4
For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny
should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it
should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.

Wis 16:5
For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these,
and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, thy wrath
endured not for ever:

Wis 16:6
But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be
admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in
remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

Wis 16:7
For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the
thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.

Wis 16:8
And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is
thou who deliverest from all evil:

Wis 16:9
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed,
neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were
worthy to be punished by such.

Wis 16:10
But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame:
for thy mercy was ever by them, and healed them.

Wis 16:11
For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words;
and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep
forgetfulness, they might be continually mindful of thy
goodness.

Wis 16:12
For it was neither herb, nor mo