Wisdom 15:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas he lived once, but they never. More versionsCommon English Bible Being a human, a person can construct only a dead thing with lawless hands. These people are better than the things that they worship, for they have life and the things that they worship do not. Catholic Public Domain Version For, being mortal, he forms a dead thing with his unjust hands. Yet, he is better than those things that he worships, because he indeed has lived, though he is mortal, but they never have. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never. Good News Translation (US Version) Every person will sooner or later die, but anything he makes with his wicked hands is dead from the start. He himself is better than what he worships. He at least is alive, but what he worships is not, and never has been. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers But, being mortal, he makes a dead thing by the work of lawless hands; for he is better than the objects of his worship, since he indeed had life, but they never did. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition In fact, we humans are mortal ourselves, and any idol we make with our own evil hands is less than we are and is completely lifeless. |