Wisdom 15:5
Good News Translation
The sight of such things arouses the passions of foolish people and makes them desire a dead, lifeless image.

New Revised Standard Version
whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image.

Contemporary English Version
to encourage fools to worship those lifeless images.

New American Bible
the sight of which arouses yearning in a fool, till he longs for the inanimate form of a dead image.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.

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The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.

Wisdom 15:3
For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

Wisdom 15:4
For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,

Wisdom 15:6
The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.

Wisdom 15:7
The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge.

Context
Wisdom 15
4For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, 5The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. 6The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.…
Cross References
Wisdom 15:3
For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

Wisdom 15:4
For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,

Wisdom 15:6
The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.

Wisdom 15:7
The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:4
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