Wisdom 15:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ For to know thee is perfect justice: and to know thy justice, and thy power, is the root of immortality.

⁴ For the invention of mischievous men hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven figure with divers colours,

⁵ The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.