Good News Translation
Idols have not always existed, nor will they exist forever.

New Revised Standard Version
for they did not exist from the beginning, nor will they last forever.

Contemporary English Version
Idols were not here in the beginning, and they won't be around forever.

New American Bible
For in the beginning they were not, nor can they ever continue;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.

For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.

Wisdom 14:11
Therefore there shall be no respect had even to the idols of the Gentiles: because the creatures of God are turned to an abomination, and a temptation to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.

Wisdom 14:12
For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.

Wisdom 14:14
For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore they shall be found to come shortly to an end.

Wisdom 14:15
For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son, who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants.