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Chapter 14

Again, one preparing for a voyage and about to traverse the wild waves
    cries out to wood more unsound than the boat that bears him.(A)
For the urge for profits devised this latter,
    and Wisdom the artisan produced it.

[a]But your providence, O Father! guides it,
    for you have furnished even in the sea a road,
    and through the waves a steady path,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 14:3–6 The wooden ship mentioned in vv. 1–2 prompts a short meditation on the providence of God, who in fact has watched over boats in their dangerous courses. The wood as described in v. 7 became a favorite patristic type for the wood of the cross.