Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation A potter works the soft clay and carefully shapes each object for our use. Some things he makes are put to good use, and some are not, but he makes them all from the same clay, and shapes them in the same manner. The potter himself decides which objects shall be used for what purposes. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. Wisdom 15:5The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wisdom 15:6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. Wisdom 15:8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. 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. Context Wisdom 15…6The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. 7The potter also tempering soft earth, with labour fashioneth every vessel for our service, and of the same clay he maketh both vessels that are for clean uses, and likewise such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of these vessels, the potter is the judge. 8And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again.… Cross References Wisdom 15:5 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image. Wisdom 15:6 The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them. Wisdom 15:8 And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. 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. |