Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation But the most foolish of all people, showing less sense than babies, were the enemies who oppressed your people, O Lord. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure: Wisdom 15:12Yea, 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. Wisdom 15:13 For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. Wisdom 15:15 For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk. Wisdom 15:16 For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself. Context Wisdom 15…13For that man knoweth that he offendeth above all others, who of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels, and graven gods. 14But all the enemies of thy people that hold them in subjection, are foolish, and unhappy, and proud beyond measure: 15For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk.… Cross References 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. Wisdom 15:15 For they have esteemed all the idols of the heathens for gods, which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for their feet, they are slow to walk. Wisdom 15:16 For man made them: and he that borroweth his own breath, fashioned them. For no man can make a god like to himself. |