2. For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill.
3. But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,
4. Shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea though a man went to sea without art.
5. But that the works of thy wisdom might not be idle: therefore men also trust their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea by ship are saved.
6. And from the beginning also when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world fleeing to a vessel, which was governed by thy hand, left to the world seed of generation.