11:23. For the whole world before thee is as the least grain of the balance, and as a drop of the morning dew, that falleth down upon tho earth. 11:24. But thou hast mercy upon all, because thou canst do all things, and overlookest the sins of men for the sake of repentance. 11:25. For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it. 11:26. And how could any thing endure, if thou wouldst not? or be preserved, if not called by thee? 11:27. But thou sparest all: because they are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls. Wisdom Chapter 12 God's wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Chanaanites. 12:1. O how good and sweet is thy Spirit, O Lord, in all things! 12:2. And therefore thou chastisest them that err, by little and little: and admonishest them, and speakest to them, concerning the things wherein they offend: that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord. 12:3. For those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor, 12:4. Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices, 12:5. And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, From the midst of thy consecration. . .Literally, sacrament. That is, the land sacred to thee, in which thy temple was to be established, and man's redemption to be wrought. 12:6. And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, 12:7. That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God. 12:8. Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. 12:9. Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once: 12:10. But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed. 12:11. For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins. 12:12. For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ? 12:13. For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly. 12:14. Neither shall king, nor tyrant, in thy sight inquire about them whom thou hast destroyed. 12:15. For so much then, as thou art just, thou orderest all things justly: thinking it not agreeable to the power, to condemn him who deserveth not to be punished.