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Wisdom 13:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He plans for it that it may not fall down, knowing that it is unable to help itself (for truly it is an image, and needs help). "

Wisdom 13:16

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14 or makes it like some worthless animal, smearing it with something red, painting it red, and smearing over every stain in it.

15 Having made a worthy chamber for it, he sets it in a wall, securing it with iron.

16 He plans for it that it may not fall down, knowing that it is unable to help itself (for truly it is an image, and needs help).

17 When he makes his prayer concerning goods and his marriage and children, he is not ashamed to speak to that which has no life.

18 Yes, for health, he calls upon that which is weak. For life, he implores that which is dead. For aid, he supplicates that which has no experience. For a good journey, he asks that which can’t so much as move a step.

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Wisdom 13:1

"For truly all men who had no perception of God were foolish by nature, and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the good things that are seen. They didn’t recognize the architect from his works."

Wisdom 13:2

"But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air, or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of heaven were gods that rule the world."

Wisdom 13:3

"If it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be gods, let them know how much better their Sovereign Lord is than these, for the first author of beauty created them."

Wisdom 13:4

"But if it was through astonishment at their power and influence, then let them understand from them how much more powerful he who formed them is."

Wisdom 13:5

"For from the greatness of the beauty of created things, mankind forms the corresponding perception of their Maker."

Wisdom 13:6

"But yet for these men there is but small blame, for they too perhaps go astray while they are seeking God and desiring to find him."

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