These are my favorite verses from the Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon 11:15-20. An omnipotent creator God does not have to use created creatures to punish, He can start from scratch.
which led them astray to worship irrational
serpents and worthless animals,
thou didst send upon them a multitude of irrational
creatures to punish them,
[16] that they might learn that one is punished
by the very things by which he sins.
[17] For thy all-powerful hand,
which created the world out of formless matter,
did not lack the means to send upon them a
multitude of bears, or bold lions,
[18] or newly created unknown beasts full of rage,
or such as breathe out fiery breath,
or belch forth a thick pall of smoke,
or flash terrible sparks from their eyes;
[19] not only could their damage exterminate men,
but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
[20] Even apart from these, men could fall at a single breath
when pursued by justice
and scattered by the breath of thy power.
But thou hast arranged all things by measure
and number and weight. [1]
