For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them.

Wisdom 12:25
Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them.

Wisdom 12:26
But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God.

Wisdom 13:1
But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:

Wisdom 13:2
But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.