16. That they might learn, that by what things a man sins, by these he is punished.
17. For your all-powerful hand, That created the world out of formless matter, Lacked not means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
18. Or new-created wild beasts, full of rage, of unknown kind, Either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, Or blowing forth from their nostrils noisome smoke, Or flashing dreadful sparkles from their eyes;
19. Which had power not only to consume them by their violence, But to destroy them even by the terror of their sight.
20. Yes and without these might they have fallen by a single breath, Being pursued by Justice, and scattered abroad by the breath of your power. But by measure and number and weight you did order all things.
21. For to be greatly strong is your at all times; And the might of your arm who shall withstand?
22. Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, And as a drop of dew that at morning comes down upon the earth.
23. But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, And you overlookest the sins of men to the end they may repent.
24. For you love all things that are, And abhor none of the things which you did make; For never would you have formed anything if you did hate it.
25. And how would anything have endured, except you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?