Wisdom 15:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ For to know you is complete righteousness,
and to know your power is the root of immortality.
⁴ For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us,
nor the fruitless toil of painters,
a figure stained with varied colors,
⁵ whose appearance arouses yearning in fools,
so that they desire^[a] the lifeless form of a dead image.