Wisdom of Solomon 15
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1BVt thou, ô our God, art gracious and true, long suffring, and gouernest all things by mercie. 2Thogh we sinne, yet are we thine: for we knowe thy power: but we sinne not, knowing that we are counted thine. 3For to knowe thee, is perfite righteousnes, and to knowe thy power is the roote of immortalitie. 4For nether hathe the wicked inuention of men disceiued vs, nor the vnprofitable labour of the painters, nor an image spotted with diuers colours. 5Whose sight stirreth vp the desire of the ignorant: so that he coueteth the forme that hathe no life, of a dead image. 6They that loue suche wicked things, are worthie to haue suche things to trust to, and they that make them, and they that desire them, and they that worship them. 7The potter also tempereth soft earth, & facioneth euerie vessel with labour to our vse: but of the same clay he maketh bothe the vessels, that serue to cleane vses, and the contrarie likewise: but whereto euerie vessel serueth, the potter is the iudge. 8So by his wicked labour he maketh a vaine god of the same claye: euen he, which a litle afore was made of earth him self, and within a litle while after goeth thither againe whence he was taken, when he shal make accounte for the lone of his life. 9Notwithstanding he careth not for the labour he taketh, nor that his life is shorte, but he striueth with the goldesmithes, and siluersmithes, and counterfaiteth the copersmithes, and taketh it for an honour to make deceiuable things. 10His heart is ashes, and his hope is more vile then earth, and his life is lesse worthie of honour then claye. 11For he knoweth not his owne maker, that gaue him his soule, that had power & breathed in him the breth of life. 12But they counte our life to be but a pastime, and our conuersacion as a market, where there is gaine: for they say we oght to be getting on euerie side, thogh it be by euil meanes. 13Now he that of earth maketh fraile vessels and images, knoweth him self to offend aboue all other. 14All the enemies of thy people, that holde them in subiection, are moste vnwise, & more miserable then the verie fooles. 15For they iudge all the idoles of the nacions to be gods, which nether haue eye sight to se, nor noses to smel, nor eares to heare, nor fingers of hands to grope, & their fete are slowe to go. 16For man made them, and he that hathe but a borowed spirit, facioned them: but no man can make a god like vnto him self. 17For seing he is but mortal him self, it is but mortal that he maketh with vnrighteous hands: he him self is better then thei whome he worshippeth: for he liued, but they neuer liued. 18Yea, they worshipped beasts also, which are their moste enemies, & which are the worste, if thei be compared vnto others, because they haue none vnderstanding. 19Nether haue they anie beautie to be desired in respect of other beasts: for they are destitute of Gods praise, and of his blessing.