Wisdom 15:17
Good News Translation
Every person will sooner or later die, but anything he makes with his wicked hands is dead from the start. He himself is better than what he worships. He at least is alive, but what he worships is not, and never has been.

New Revised Standard Version
People are mortal, and what they make with lawless hands is dead; for they are better than the objects they worship, since they have life, but the idols never had.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, we humans are mortal ourselves, and any idol we make with our own evil hands is less than we are and is completely lifeless.

New American Bible
he is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead. For he is better than the things he worships; he at least lives, but never his idols.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 15:15
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.

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

Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.

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

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

Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:16
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