Wisdom of Solomon 13:9

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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