Wisdom 13:5
Good News Translation
When we realize how vast and beautiful the creation is, we are learning about the Creator at the same time.

New Revised Standard Version
For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.

Contemporary English Version
Indeed, the power and beauty of nature should convince us that their Creator is even more powerful and beautiful.

New American Bible
For from the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author, by analogy, is seen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 13:3
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 13:4
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

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

Wisdom 13:7
For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.

Context
Wisdom 13
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. 6But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.…
Cross References
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 13:4
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

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

Wisdom 13:7
For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 13:4
Top of Page
Top of Page