Wisdom 16:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁴ For creation, serving you who made it,
exerts itself to punish the unrighteous,
and in kindness relaxes on behalf of those who trust in you.
²⁵ Therefore at that time also, changed into all forms,
it served your all-nourishing bounty,
according to the desire of those who had need,^[a]
26 so that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the production of crops that feeds humankind
but that your word sustains those who trust in you.