Wis 12:1 
For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things. 
 
Wis 12:2 
Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that 
offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein 
they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may 
believe on thee, O Lord. 
 
Wis 12:3 
For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers 
both those old inhabitants of thy holy land, 
 
Wis 12:4 
Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, 
and wicked sacrifices; 
 
Wis 12:5 
And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers 
of man's flesh, and the feasts of blood, 
 
Wis 12:6 
With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, 
and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls 
destitute of help: 
 
Wis 12:7 
That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might 
receive a worthy colony of God's children. 
 
Wis 12:8 
Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send 
wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and 
little. 
 
Wis 12:9 
Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand 
of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with 
cruel beasts, or with one rough word: 
 
Wis 12:10 
But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, 
thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that 
they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred 
in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed. 
 
Wis 12:11 
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst 
thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things 
wherein they sinned. 
 
Wis 12:12 
For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall 
withstand thy judgment? or who shall accuse thee for the nations 
that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against 
thee, to be revenged for the unrighteous men? 
 
Wis 12:13 
For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to 
whom thou mightest shew that thy judgment is not unright. 
 
Wis 12:14 
Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against 
thee for any whom thou hast punished. 
 
Wis 12:15 
Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest 
all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power 
to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished. 
 
Wis 12:16 
For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because 
thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto 
all. 
 
Wis 12:17 
For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, 
thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou 
makest their boldness manifest. 
 
Wis 12:18 
But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and 
orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when 
thou wilt. 
 
Wis 12:19 
But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just 
man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a 
good hope that thou givest repentance for sins. 
 
Wis 12:20 
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the 
condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and 
place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice: 
 
Wis 12:21 
With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own 
sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of 
good promises? 
 
Wis 12:22 
Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our 
enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we 
judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we 
ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy. 
 
Wis 12:23 
Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and 
unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own 
abominations. 
 
Wis 12:24 
For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held 
them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were 
despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding. 
 
Wis 12:25 
Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of 
reason, thou didst send a judgment to mock them. 
 
Wis 12:26 
But they that would not be reformed by that correction, 
wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of 
God. 
 
Wis 12:27 
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were 
punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now] 
being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him 
to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and 
therefore came extreme damnation upon them.