11:1 智慧使他们的事业，在圣先知的手下进行顺利：
She made their affairs prosper through the holy prophet. 11:2 他们走过了无人烟的荒野，在无路的荒野，支搭了帐幕；
They journeyed through the uninhabited desert, and in solitudes they pitched their tents; 11:3 与敌军对峙，击退了敌人。
they withstood enemies and took vengeance on their foes. 11:4 他们渴时，呼求了你，岩石就给他们流出了清泉，盘石解决了他们的口渴。
When they thirsted, they called upon you, and water was given them from the sheer rock, assuagement for their thirst from the hard stone. 11:5 他们的敌人在什么事上受罚，他们就在那种困难中受到爱护。
For by the things through which their foes were punished they in their need were benefited. 11:6 【敌人缺少的，以色列人却常有不缺。】
NO CONTENT 11:7 为惩罚埃及人颁发杀害婴儿的命令，常流的江河，混入了鲜血污泥，
Instead of a spring, when the perennial river was troubled with impure blood 11:8 你却出乎众望，另赐给了以色列人丰富的水；
as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants, You gave them abundant water in an unhoped-for way, 11:9 他们借着当时的口渴，可以明了你怎样惩罚了他们的仇人。
once you had shown by the thirst they then had how you punished their adversaries. 11:10 以色列人固然受了试探，但这只是出乎仁爱的惩戒，要他们明了不虔敬的人，在天主义怒的审判之下，怎样受了惩罚；
For when they had been tried, though only mildly chastised, they recognized how the wicked, condemned in anger, were being tormented. 11:11 因为你考验以色列人，自来就像一个规劝的父亲；你审问埃及人，却像一位定罪的严厉君王。
Both those afar off and those close by were afflicted: 11:12 以色列人不论在的时候，或远去的时候，埃及人都同样遭受痛苦。
the latter you tested, admonishing them as a father; the former as a stern king you probed and condemned. 11:13 他们因受双重的苦恼夹击，一回忆往事，便呻吟叹息；
For a twofold grief took hold of them and a groaning at the remembrance of the ones who had departed. 11:14 因为当他们一听说自己的刑罚，反成了别人的利益，便知这是上主的作为。
For when they heard that the cause of their own torments was a benefit to these others, they recognized the Lord. 11:15 埃及人以前所拋弃，所放逐，所讥笑的人，在事后反为他们惊奇不已，因为他们的口渴，究竟与义人不同。
Him who of old had been cast out in exposure they indeed mockingly rejected; but in the end of events, they marveled at him, since their thirst proved unlike that of the just. 11:16 他们因愚昧与邪恶的思想，走入了歧途，崇拜了无灵的爬虫和野兽，你就派遣了成群的无灵的动物，来惩罚他们，
And in return for their senseless, wicked thoughts, which misled them into worshiping dumb serpents and worthless insects, You sent upon them swarms of dumb creatures for vengeance; 11:17 叫他们知道，人用什么来犯罪，就用什么来罚他。
that they might recognize that a man is punished by the very things through which he sins. 11:18 因为，你全能的手，既能从无定形的原质中，造出了世界，也不难为他们遣来许多狗熊或猛狮，
For not without means was your almighty hand, that had fashioned the universe from formless matter, to send upon them a drove of bears or fierce lions, 11:19 或新造而不知名的残暴猛兽，喷射火焰，放射毒气，两眼闪烁可怕的火星。
Or new-created, wrathful, unknown beasts to breathe forth fiery breath, Or pour out roaring smoke, or flash terrible sparks from their eyes. 11:20 这些猛兽，不但能肆虐将他们消灭，即连他们的恐怖形状，也能把人吓死。
Not only could these attack and completely destroy them; even their frightful appearance itself could slay. 11:21 即使没有它们，因你一口气，埃及人也会死亡，因你正义的追击，他们必为你大能的气息所卷去；但你处置这一切，原有一定的尺度、数目和衡量。
Even without these, they could have been killed at a single blast, pursued by retribution and winnowed out by your mighty spirit; But you have disposed all things by measure and number and weight. 11:22 你随时可用你的大能，有谁能抵抗你有力的手臂﹖
For with you great strength abides always; who can resist the might of your arm? 11:23 整个世界，在你跟前，宛如天秤上的一粒尘沙，落在地面上的一滴朝露。
Indeed, before you the whole universe is as a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. 11:24 但是，你怜闵众生，因为你是无所不能的，你假装看不见人罪，是为叫罪人悔改。
But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook the sins of men that they may repent. 11:25 的确，你爱一切所有，不恨你所造的；如果你憎恨什么，你必不会造它。
For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned. 11:26 如果你不愿意，甚么东西能够存在﹖如果你不吩咐，甚么东西能够保全﹖
And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? 11:27 爱护众灵的主宰!只有你爱惜万物，因为都是你的。
But you spare all things, because they are yours, O LORD and lover of souls,