Wisdom 13:3
Good News Translation
People were so delighted with the beauty of these things that they thought they must be gods, but they should have realized that these things have a master and that he is much greater than all of them, for he is the creator of beauty, and he created them.

New Revised Standard Version
If through delight in the beauty of these things people assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.

Contemporary English Version
because they were so beautiful. But you are the Lord, as well as the source of all beauty, so let those fools know how much more beautiful you are than any of these things.

New American Bible
Now if out of joy in their beauty they thought them gods, let them know how far more excellent is the Lord than these; for the original source of beauty fashioned them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.

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With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.

Wisdom 13:1
But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:

Wisdom 13:2
But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.

Wisdom 13:4
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

Wisdom 13:5
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

Context
Wisdom 13
2But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world. 3With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things. 4Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:…
Cross References
Wisdom 13:1
But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman:

Wisdom 13:2
But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.

Wisdom 13:4
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

Wisdom 13:5
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 13:2
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