Wisdom 13:10
Good News Translation
But the most miserable people of all are those who rest their hopes on lifeless things, who worship things that have been made by human hands--images of animals artistically made from gold and silver, or some useless stone carved by someone years ago.

New Revised Standard Version
But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are those who give the name “gods” to the works of human hands, gold and silver fashioned with skill, and likenesses of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand.

Contemporary English Version
Some people are miserable because they have set their hopes either on lifeless idols crafted in the shape of animals from gold and silver, or else on some old pieces of worthless stone.

New American Bible
But wretched are they, and in dead things are their hopes, who termed gods things made by human hands: Gold and silver, the product of art, and images of beasts, or useless stone, the work of an ancient hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.

Wisdom 13:8
But then again they are not to be pardoned.

Wisdom 13:9
For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

Wisdom 13:11
Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,

Wisdom 13:12
And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:

Context
Wisdom 13
9For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof? 10But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand. 11Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,…
Cross References
Wisdom 13:8
But then again they are not to be pardoned.

Wisdom 13:9
For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

Wisdom 13:11
Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,

Wisdom 13:12
And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 13:9
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