Wisdom 13:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Finally, he makes a perfect little shrine for it and fastens the shrine securely to the wall with a nail ¹⁶ so that it doesn’t fall down. He knows full well that it can’t do anything for itself. After all, it’s only an image, and it requires help.

¹⁷ In time he begins to pray to it: for his possessions, for his marriage, for his children. He’s not ashamed to talk to this lifeless object. In fact, he begins to ask this fragile little creation to provide him with good health.