Wisdom of Solomon 13:12
“And after spending the refuse of his worke to dresse his meat, hath filled himselfe:”
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Wisdom of Solomon 13:12 Context
10But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who called them gods which are the workes of mens hands, golde and siluer, to shewe arte in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the worke of an ancient hand. 11Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after hee hath sawen downe a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the barke skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, & made a vessell thereof fit for the seruice of mans life: 12And after spending the refuse of his worke to dresse his meat, hath filled himselfe: 13And taking the very refuse among those which serued to no vse (being a crooked piece of wood, and ful of knots) hath carued it diligently when hee had nothing else to doe, and formed it by the skill of his vnderstanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man: 14Or made it like some vile beast, laying it ouer with vermilion, and with paint, colouring it red, and couering euery spot therein:
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And after spending the refuse of his work to dress his meat, hath filled himself;
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