18. For it was not impossible for your all-powerful hand, which created the world from unknown material, to send forth upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
19. or, in anger, beasts of a new kind, massive and strange, either breathing out a fiery vapor, or sending forth an odorous smoke, or shooting horrible sparks from their eyes;
20. whereby, not only wounds would be able to destroy them, but also the very sight would kill them through fear.
21. Yet, even without these, they could have been killed with one breath, suffering persecution of their own making and being scattered by your spirit of virtue; but you have ordered all things in size and number and weight.
22. Though many are strong, you alone always overcome. And who will withstand the strength of your arm?
23. For, like a tiny grain on a scale, just so is the world before you, and like a drop dew before dawn, which descends upon the earth.