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Wisdom 15:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Also, laboring to an evil end, he molds a vain god out of the same clay, he who, having but a little before been made of earth, after a short space goes his way to the earth out of which he was taken, when he is required to give back the soul which was lent him. "

Wisdom 15:8

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6 Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes, are those who make, desire, and worship them.

7 For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge.

8 Also, laboring to an evil end, he molds a vain god out of the same clay, he who, having but a little before been made of earth, after a short space goes his way to the earth out of which he was taken, when he is required to give back the soul which was lent him.

9 However he has anxious care, not because his powers must fail, nor because his span of life is short; But he compares himself with goldsmiths and silversmiths, and he imitates molders in brass, and considers it great that he molds counterfeit gods.

10 His heart is ashes. His hope is of less value than earth. His life is of less honor than clay,

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Isaiah 45:9

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"Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?"

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Jeremiah 18:4

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"When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

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Job 33:6

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"Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay."

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Isaiah 44:10

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"Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?"

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Ecclesiastes 5:16

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"This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?"

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Ecclesiastes 2:21

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"For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil."

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Wisdom 15:1

"But you, our God, are gracious and true, patient, and in mercy ordering all things."

Wisdom 15:2

"For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion; but we will not sin, knowing that we have been accounted yours."

Wisdom 15:3

"For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, and to know your dominion is the root of immortality."

Wisdom 15:4

"For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s, nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, a form stained with varied colors,"

Wisdom 15:5

"the sight of which leads fools into lust. Their desire is for the breathless form of a dead image."

Wisdom 15:6

"Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes, are those who make, desire, and worship them."

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