Wisdom 13:9-11

Wycliffe Bible

⁹ For if they might know so much, that they might guess (at) the world, how found they not lightlier (or easier) the Lord thereof?

¹⁰ forsooth they be cursed, and the hope of them is among dead men, that called gods the works of men’s hands, gold, and silver, the finding of craft, and likenesses of beasts, either a stone unprofitable, the work of an eld hand. [Unhappy forsooth they be, and among the dead the hope of them is, that called gods the works of the hands of men, gold, and silver, the finding of craft, and the likenesses of beasts, or unprofitable stone, the work of the old hand.]

¹¹ Either [Or] if any craftsman, a carpenter, heweth down of the woods a straight tree, and eraseth away perfectly all the rind thereof [or and of this taughtly pare away all the rind], and useth his craft diligently, and maketh a vessel full profitable into conversation of life;