1. Again, one preparing for a voyage and about to traverse the wild wavescries out to wood more unsound than the boat that bears him.
2. For the urge for profits devised this latter,and Wisdom the artisan produced it.
3. But your providence, O Father! guides it,for you have furnished even in the sea a road,and through the waves a steady path,
4. Showing that you can save from any danger,so that even one without skill may embark.
5. 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.
6. For of old, when the proud giants were being destroyed,the hope of the universe, who took refuge on a raft,left to the world a future for the human family, under the guidance of your hand.
7. For blest is the wood through which righteousness comes about;
8. but the handmade idol is accursed, and its maker as well:he for having produced it, and the corruptible thing, because it was termed a god.
9. Equally odious to God are the evildoer and the evil deed;