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Wisdom 15:14-16
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 15:14-16
New Catholic Bible
The Grotesque Character of Idolatry
14 But the most foolish of all, and infantile in their acts,
are the enemies who enslaved your people.
15 For they regarded as gods all their heathen idols,
although these cannot use their eyes to see
or their nostrils to breathe the air.
Neither can they use their ears to hear
or the fingers on their hands to touch;
and their feet are useless for walking.
16 For it was a man who made them;
they were fashioned by one whose very breath is on loan.
For no artisan can form a god to resemble himself;