1. Again, another, thinking to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the wood that carries him.
2. For this is what desire has contrived to be acquired, and the craftsman has formed its understanding.
3. But your providence, O Father, governs, because you have provided for both a way in the sea and a very reliable path among the waves,
4. revealing that you are able to save out of all things, even if someone were to go to sea without skill.
5. But, so that the works of your wisdom might not be empty, therefore, men trust their souls even to a little piece of wood, and, crossing over the sea by raft, they are set free.
6. But, from the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, fleeing by boat, gave back to future ages a seed of birth, which was governed by your hand.
7. For blessed is the wood through which justice is made.
8. But, through the hand that makes the idol, both it, and he who made it, is accursed: he, indeed, because it has been served by him, and it, because, though it is fragile, it is called 'god.'
9. But the impious and his impiety are similarly offensive to God.
10. For that which is made, together with him who made it, will suffer torments.
11. Because of this, and according to the idolatries of the nations, there will be no refuge, for the things created by God have been made into hatred, and into a temptation to the souls of men, and into a snare for the feet of the foolish.