Wisdom 15:18
Good News Translation
Such people worship the most disgusting animals, including even the least intelligent ones.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover, they worship even the most hateful animals, which are worse than all others when judged by their lack of intelligence;

Contemporary English Version
Those Egyptians worshiped snakes, the lowest form of animal life,

New American Bible
Besides, they worship the most loathsome beasts— as regards stupidity, these are worse than the rest,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.

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.

Wisdom 15:17
For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.

Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.

Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.

Context
Wisdom 15
17For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never. 18Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they. 19Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.…
Cross References
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.

Wisdom 15:17
For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.

Wisdom 15:19
Yea, neither by sight can any man see good of these beasts. But they have fled from the praise of God, and from his blessing.

Wisdom 16:1
For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:17
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