Wisdom 13:13-15

Revised Standard Version

¹³ But a castoff piece from among them, useful for nothing,
a stick crooked and full of knots,
he takes and carves with care in his leisure,
and shapes it with skill gained in idleness;^[a]
he forms it like the image of a man,
¹⁴ or makes it like some worthless animal,
giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red
and covering every blemish in it with paint;
¹⁵ then he makes for it a niche that befits it,
and sets it in the wall, and fastens it there with iron.