Wisdom 15:19
Good News Translation
Even as animals they are not attractive enough to make anyone want them. God himself passed them by when he put his approval and blessing on the rest of creation.

New Revised Standard Version
and even as animals they are not so beautiful in appearance that one would desire them, but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing.

Contemporary English Version
a form of life so ugly that you did not even give it your blessing.

New American Bible
For beasts are neither good-looking nor desirable; they have escaped both the approval of God and his blessing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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 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 15:18
Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.

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.

Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Context
Wisdom 15
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 15:17
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 15:18
Moreover, they worship also the vilest creatures: but things without sense, compared to these, are worse than they.

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.

Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 15:18
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