Wisdom 15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1 perfect righteousness,

And to know thy dominion is lust:

Their desire is for the craftsman himself is the judge.

8And also, labouring to an evil end, he mouldeth a vain god out of the same clay,

He who, having but a little before been made of earth,

After a short space soul brass,

And esteemeth it glory that he mouldeth counterfeits.

10His heart is ashes,

And his hope of less value than earth,

And his life of less honour than clay:

11Because he was ignorant of him that moulded him,

And of him that inspired into him an active soul,

And he accounted our very life to be a plaything,

And our lifetime fair;

For, saith he, one must get gain whence one can, though it be by evil.

13For this man beyond all others knoweth that he sinneth,

were they all, and of feebler soul than a babe,

The enemies of thy people, who oppressed them;

15Because they even accounted all the idols of the nations to be gods;

Forasmuch as he indeed had life, but For, being compared as to want of sense, these are worse than all others;

19Neither, as seen beside other creatures, are they beautiful, so that one should desire them,

But Cp. Gen. 1.25,31 & 3.14.they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing.