Wisdom 16:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ It was necessary for the oppressors to suffer relentless need, while your people saw how their enemies were being tormented.

^5 (A)When terrible, fierce snakes attacked your people and were killing them with their poison, you did not remain angry long enough to destroy your people. ⁶ This trouble lasted for only a little while, as a warning. Then you gave them a healing symbol, the bronze snake, to remind them of what your Law requires.