Wisdom of Solomon 13:9
“For if they were able to know so much, that they could aime at the world; how did they not sooner finde out the Lord thereof?”
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Wisdom of Solomon 13:9 Context
7For being conuersant in his workes, they search him diligently, and beleeue their sight: because the things are beautifull that are seene. 8Howbeit, neither are they to bee pardoned. 9For if they were able to know so much, that they could aime at the world; how did they not sooner finde out the Lord thereof? 10But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who called them gods which are the workes of mens hands, golde and siluer, to shewe arte in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the worke of an ancient hand. 11Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after hee hath sawen downe a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the barke skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, & made a vessell thereof fit for the seruice of mans life:
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For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?
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