Wisdom 11:14-16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ For though they had mockingly rejected him who long before had been cast out and exposed,
at the end of the events they marveled at him,
when they felt thirst in a different way from the righteous.

¹⁵ In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts,
which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals,
you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,
¹⁶ so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.