Wisdom 13:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² But have imagined either the fire, or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the great water, or the sun and moon, to be the gods that rule the world.

³ With whose beauty, if they, being delighted, took them to be gods: let them know how much the Lord of them is more beautiful than they: for the first author of beauty made all those things.

⁴ Or if they admired their power and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they: