Wisdom 14:5
Good News Translation
It is your will that the things you have made by your wisdom should be put to use. And so people can cross the sea in a boat and come safely to land, because they trust their lives to that small piece of wood.

New Revised Standard Version
It is your will that works of your wisdom should not be without effect; therefore people trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.

Contemporary English Version
By your wisdom you created the laws of nature, and so people trust even the smallest splinter of wood to bring them safely to land.

New American Bible
But you will that the products of your Wisdom be not idle; therefore people trust their lives even to most frail wood, and were safe crossing the waves on a raft.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved.

Wisdom 14:3
But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,

Wisdom 14:4
Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though a man went to sea without art.

Wisdom 14:6
And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.

Wisdom 14:7
For blessed is the wood, by which justice cometh

Context
Wisdom 14
4Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though a man went to sea without art. 5But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship, are saved. 6And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.…
Cross References
Wisdom 14:3
But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,

Wisdom 14:4
Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea, though a man went to sea without art.

Wisdom 14:6
And from the beginning also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.

Wisdom 14:7
For blessed is the wood, by which justice cometh



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

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