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• A skilled woodcutter may saw down a tree easy to handle and skilfully strip off all its bark, and then with pleasing workmanship make a useful vessel that serves life's needs, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 11)

• For health he appeals to a thing that is weak; for life he prays to a thing that is dead; for aid he entreats a thing that is utterly inexperienced; for a prosperous journey, a thing that cannot take a step; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)

• For it was desire for gain that planned that vessel, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 2)

• For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 12)

• whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 5)

• Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 6)

• But he is not concerned that he is destined to die or that his life is brief, but he competes with workers in gold and silver, and imitates workers in copper; and he counts it his glory that he molds counterfeit gods. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)

• His heart is ashes, his hope is cheaper than dirt, and his life is of less worth than clay, (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)

• But he considered our existence an idle game, and life a festival held for profit, for he says one must get money however one can, even by base means. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)

• He is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead, for he is better than the objects he worships, since he has life, but they never have. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 17)

• and even as animals they are not so beautiful in appearance that one would desire them, but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 19)

• Instead of this punishment thou didst show kindness to thy people, and thou didst prepare quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 2)