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When because of him the earth was drowned, it was Wisdom again who saved it, piloting the upright man on valueless timber. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 4)
in witness against whose evil ways a desolate land still smokes, where plants bear fruit that never ripens and where, monument to an unbelieving soul, there stands a pillar of salt. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 7)
Take a potter, now, laboriously working the soft earth, shaping each object for us to use. Out of the self-same clay, he models vessels intended for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose, all alike: but which of these two uses each will have is for the potter himself to decide. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
Then -- ill -- spent effort!-from the same clay he models a futile god, although so recently made out of earth himself and shortly to return to what he was taken from, when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
it stood, and filled the universe with death; though standing on the earth, it touched the sky. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 16)
The height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the depth of the abyss -- who can explore them? (Ecclesiasticus 1, 3)
The government of the earth is in the hands of the Lord, he sets the right leader over it at the right time. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 4)
The Lord has overthrown the lands of the nations and destroyed them to the very foundations of the earth. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 16)
Sometimes he has taken them away and destroyed them, and blotted out their memory from the earth. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 17)
For see, the sky and the heavens above the sky, the abyss and the earth shake at his visitation. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 18)
The mountains and earth's foundations alike quail and tremble when he looks at them. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 19)