Sirach 43:24
King James VersionSource notes
“They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.”
Context
21It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
22A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew coming after heat refresheth.
23By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.
24They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.
25For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created.
26By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his word all things consist.
27We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.