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CHAP. XV.
1 We doe acknowledge the true God. 7 The follie of Idole-makers, 14 and of the enemies of Gods people: 15 because besides the idoles of the Gentiles, 18 they worshipped vile beasts.
1 But thou O God, art gracious and true: long suffering, and in mercy ordering all things.
3 For to know thee is perfect righteousnesse: yea to know thy power is the roote of immortality.
5 The sight wherof entiseth fooles to lust after it, and so they desire the forme of a dead image that hath no breath.5
7 For the potter tempering soft earth fashioneth, euery vessell with much labour for our seruice: yea of the same clay hee maketh both the vessels that serue for cleane vses: and likewise also all such as serue to the contrary: but what is the vse of either sort, the potter himselfe is the iudge.7
8 And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vaine God of the same clay, euen he which a little before was made of earth himselfe, and within a little while after returneth to the same out of the which he was taken: when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.8
9 Notwithstanding his care is, not that hee shall haue much labour, nor that his life is short: but striueth to excel goldsmiths, and siluersmiths, and endeuoureth to doe like the workers in brasse, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.9
10 His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile then earth, and his life of lesse value then clay:
12 But they counted our life a pastime, & our time here a market for gaine: for, say they, we must be getting euery way, though it be by euil meanes.12
13 For this man that of earthly matter maketh brickle vessels, and grauen images, knoweth himselfe to offend aboue all others.13
15 For they counted all the idoles of the heathen to be gods: which neither haue the vse of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor eares to heare, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feete they are slow to goe.15
Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 15 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
5 Or, turneth a reproch to the foolish
7 Rom.9.11
8 Luke 12. 20.
9 Or, be sicke or die.
12 Gre. life.
13 Or, so.
15 Or, ayre.
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