Wisdom 13:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

¹⁰ But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hands of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.

¹¹ Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skillfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,