Wisdom 13:4
Good News Translation
Since people are amazed at the power of these things, and how they behave, they ought to learn from them that their maker is far more powerful.

New Revised Standard Version
And if people were amazed at their power and working, let them perceive from them how much more powerful is the one who formed them.

Contemporary English Version
And if anyone is amazed at the mighty power of nature, then they should realize that the Creator is even more powerful.

New American Bible
Or if they were struck by their might and energy, let them realize from these things how much more powerful is the one who made them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Wisdom 13:2
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 13:3
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 13:5
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

Wisdom 13:6
But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

Context
Wisdom 13
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: 5For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.…
Cross References
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 13:3
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 13:5
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

Wisdom 13:6
But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 13:3
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