Wisdom 15:16
Good News Translation
Someone whose spirit is only borrowed made them. No one can ever make a god that is equal to a human being.

New Revised Standard Version
For a human being made them, and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them; for none can form gods that are like themselves.

Contemporary English Version
They were made by some human whose soul was borrowed, and none of us can make a god that is our equal.

New American Bible
For it was a mere human being who made them; one living on borrowed breath who fashioned them. For no one is able to fashion a god like himself;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Wisdom 15:14
But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

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 15:17
For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.

Wisdom 15:18
Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.

Context
Wisdom 15
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. 16For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself. 17For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.…
Cross References
Wisdom 15:14
But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure:

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 15:17
For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.

Wisdom 15:18
Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:15
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