Wisdom 14:6 CPDV

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.'