Wisdom 11:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ Your almighty power, Lord, created the world out of material that had no form at all. You could easily have punished those people by sending an invasion of bears or savage lions. ¹⁸ You could have created new and terrible animals, that could breathe fire or roar and send out clouds of smoke, or shoot out fearful sparks from their eyes. ¹⁹ You could have made animals like these that would not have to attack those people to kill them, but could scare them to death just by looking at them.