2 For the urge for profits devised this latter,and Wisdom the artisan produced it.
3 But your providence, O Father! guides it,for you have furnished even in the sea a road,and through the waves a steady path,
4 Showing that you can save from any danger,so that even one without skill may embark.
5 But you will that the products of your Wisdom be not idle;therefore people trust their lives even to most frail wood,and were safe crossing the waves on a raft.
6 For of old, when the proud giants were being destroyed,the hope of the universe, who took refuge on a raft,left to the world a future for the human family, under the guidance of your hand.
7 For blest is the wood through which righteousness comes about;
8 but the handmade idol is accursed, and its maker as well:he for having produced it, and the corruptible thing, because it was termed a god.