Wisdom 16:25-27

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ Therefore at that time also, changed into all forms,
it served thy all-nourishing bounty,
according to the desire of those who had need,^[a]
26 so that thy sons, whom thou didst love, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the production of crops that feeds man,
but that thy word preserves those who trust in thee.
²⁷ For what was not destroyed by fire
was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun,