Wisdom 14:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But the artist’s desire to be recognized for his work also incited the fools to an ever greater intensity of worship. ¹⁹ Perhaps out of a desire to please the person in power, the artist makes the most of his artistic skill to fashion an even more beautiful and perfect image. ²⁰ The masses, charmed by the object’s workmanship, now begin to consider the object worthy of their worship, where not long before they had only honored the person as a human being.