Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation You can show your great power any time you wish, and no one can stand up against it. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight. Wisdom 11:19Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes: Wisdom 11:20 Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear. Wisdom 11:22 For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm? Wisdom 11:23 For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth. Context Wisdom 11…20Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear. 21Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight. 22For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm?… Cross References Wisdom 11:19 Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes: Wisdom 11:20 Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear. Wisdom 11:22 For great power always belonged to thee alone: and who shall resist the strength of thy arm? Wisdom 11:23 For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth. |