Wisdom 16:25-27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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