Wisdom 15:14
Good News Translation
But the most foolish of all people, showing less sense than babies, were the enemies who oppressed your people, O Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
But most foolish, and more miserable than an infant, are all the enemies who oppressed your people.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, those Egyptians who abused your people were the most foolish of all and were more pitiful than infants.

New American Bible
But most stupid of all and worse than senseless in mind, are the enemies of your people who enslaved them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

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But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

Wisdom 15:12
Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.

Wisdom 15:13
For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods.

Wisdom 15:15
For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk.

Wisdom 15:16
For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself.

Context
Wisdom 15
13For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. 14But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure: 15For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk.…
Cross References
Wisdom 15:12
Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.

Wisdom 15:13
For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods.

Wisdom 15:15
For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk.

Wisdom 15:16
For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:13
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