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And what marvel? At the beginning of all, when the giants perished in their pride, was not such a barque the refuge of all the world’s hopes? Yet thy hand was at the helm, and the seed of life was saved for posterity. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
For indeed they were no part of man’s life from the first, nor shall be at the last; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
Peace, while there is no respect for life, or for wedlock undefiled; always the murderous ambush, the jealous pangs of a husband betrayed! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
Lord of life as of death, thou canst bring us down to the grave and back from the grave; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 13)
thine is not the fatal stroke man deals in spite, that banishes life beyond recall, imprisons the soul for ever. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 14)
They had thought to exercise barbarous tyranny over a nation consecrated to thee. And now they lay, shut close under their own roofs, darkness their dungeon, their sentence a long-drawn night, exiled from the gifts of thy eternal Providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
There was a time, too, when God’s own people tasted the bitterness of death; out there in the desert a plague fell upon the common folk; but not for long this vengeance lasted. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 20)
Such blazonings he bore; what meant that long robe of his but the whole world’s orbit, the four rows of gems but the great deeds of our first fathers, the mitre on his head but thy own greatness? (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 24)
