Wisdom 15:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 For to know you well is complete righteousness,
and to know your might is the root of immortality.(A)
4 For the evil creation of human fancy did not deceive us,
nor the fruitless labor of painters,(B)
A form smeared with varied colors,
5 the sight of which arouses yearning in a fool,
till he longs for the inanimate form of a dead image.
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