llifying plaister, that
restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all
things.

Wis 16:13
For thou hast power of life and death: thou leadest to the
gates of hell, and bringest up again.

Wis 16:14
A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when
it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up
cometh again.

Wis 16:15
But it is not possible to escape thine hand.

Wis 16:16
For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by
the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and
showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and
through fire were they consumed.

Wis 16:17
For, which is most to be wondered at, the fire had more force
in the water, that quencheth all things: for the world fighteth
for the righteous.

Wis 16:18
For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn
up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves
might see and perceive that they were persecuted with the
judgment of God.

Wis 16:19
And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water
above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an
unjust land.

Wis 16:20
Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels'
food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without
their labour, able to content every man's delight, and agreeing
to every taste.

Wis 16:21
For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children,
and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to
every man's liking.

Wis 16:22
But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, that they
might know that fire burning in the hail, and sparkling in the
rain, did destroy the fruits of the enemies.

Wis 16:23
But this again did even forget his own strength, that the
righteous might be nourished.

Wis 16:24
For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker
increaseth his strength against the unrighteous for their
punishment, and abateth his strength for the benefit of such as
put their trust in thee.

Wis 16:25
Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, and was
obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, according to
the desire of them that had need:

Wis 16:26
That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that
it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it
is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.

Wis 16:27
For that which was not destroyed of t