Wis 12:8 | CPDV | STEP | Yet, so that you were lenient even to these men, you sent wasps, forerunners of your army, so that you might destroy them little by little,

Wisdom of Solomon 12:8

8 Yet, so that you were lenient even to these men, you sent wasps, forerunners of your army, so that you might destroy them little by little, ^{▼▼12:8Here is an interesting play on words, in the Latin, which is not (as far as I know) found in the Hebrew or the Greek. The wasps are said to be forerunners of God’s army, but the word army in Latin, exercitus, can also mean swarm, as in a swarm of insects.(Conte)}