¹⁷ For—most incredible of all—in water, which quenches all things,
the fire had still greater effect,
for the universe defends the righteous.^(A)

²² Snow and ice withstood fire without melting,
so that they might know that the crops of their enemies
were being destroyed by the fire that blazed in the hail
and flashed in the showers of rain;^(A)

²³ whereas the fire,^[a] in order that the righteous might be fed,
even forgot its native power.