Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Anyone who makes such a thing or desires it or worships it is in love with something evil, and gets what he deserves when he places his hopes in it. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 15:4For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours, Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. 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. Wisdom 15:8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. Context Wisdom 15…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. 7The 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.… Cross References 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 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. 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. Wisdom 15:8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. |
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