OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 14:5

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It is your will that the works of your wisdom should not be ineffective. Therefore men also entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft come safely to land.

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Verse 5. Saved. Before the invention of the compass, long voyages were deemed the effects of rashness, or of great confidence in Providence. Calmet.

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