Wisdom 14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Wisdom of Solomon 14Folly of a Navigator Praying to an Idol

1 in their presence, since they lived at a distance,

they imagined their appearance far away

and made a visible image of the king whom they honored,

so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present.

18Then the ambition of the artisan impelled

even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship.

19 either rave in exultation

or prophesy lies or live unrighteously or readily commit perjury,

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but the just penalty for those who sin

that always pursues the transgression of the unrighteous.