Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation because he never came to know the God who shaped him, who breathed into him an active soul and a living spirit. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit. Wisdom 15:9But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. Wisdom 15:10 For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay: Wisdom 15:12 Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil. Wisdom 15:13 For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. Context Wisdom 15…10For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay: 11Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit. 12Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.… Cross References Wisdom 15:9 But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. Wisdom 15:10 For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay: Wisdom 15:12 Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil. Wisdom 15:13 For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. |