Wisdom 13:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴ or makes it like some worthless animal,
giving it a coat of red paint and colouring its surface red
and covering every blemish in it with paint;
¹⁵ then he makes a suitable niche for it,
and sets it in the wall, and fastens it there with iron.
¹⁶ He takes thought for it, so that it may not fall,
because he knows that it cannot help itself,
for it is only an image and has need of help.