Wisdom of Solomon · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Wisdom of Solomon 15 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Wisdom of Solomon is not in RV1909.
1 But thou, our God, art gracious and true, Long-suffering, and in mercy ordering all things.
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2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: But we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
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3 For to know thee is perfect righteousness: Yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
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4 For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, Nor an image spotted with diverse colors, The painter’s fruitless labor;
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5 The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, And so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
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6 Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, Are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
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7 For the potter, tempering soft earth, Fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service: Yea, of the same clay he maketh Both the vessels that serve for clean uses, And likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: But what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
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8 And employing his labors lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, Even he which a little before was made of earth himself, And within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, When his life which was lent him shall be demanded.
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9 Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labor, Nor that his life is short: But striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, And endeavoreth to do like the workers in brass, And counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.
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10 His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, And his life of less value than clay:
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11 Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, And him that inspired into him an active soul, And breathed in a living spirit.
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12 But they counted our life a pastime, And our time here a market for gain: For, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means.
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13 For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, Knoweth himself to offend above all others.
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14 And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subjection, Are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.
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15 For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: Which neither have the use of eyes to see, Nor noses to draw breath, Nor ears to hear, Nor fingers of hands to handle; And as for their feet, they are slow to go.
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16 For man made them, And he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: But no man can make a god like unto himself.
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17 For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: For he himself is better than the things which he worshipeth: Whereas [he] lived once, but they never.
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18 Yea, they worshiped those beasts also that are most hateful: For being compared together, some are worse than others.
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19 Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: But they went without the praise of God and his blessing.
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