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The bits left over from his work he uses for cooking his food, then eats his fill. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 12)
There is still a good-for-nothing bit left over, a gnarled and knotted billet: he takes it and whittles it with the concentration of his leisure hours, he shapes it with the skill of experience, he gives it a human shape (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
or perhaps he makes it into some vile animal, smears it with ochre, paints its surface red, coats over all its blemishes. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 14)
He next makes a worthy home for it, lets it into the wall, fixes it with an iron clamp. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 15)
And yet, if he wishes to pray for his goods, for his marriage, for his children, he does not blush to harangue this lifeless thing -- for health, he invokes what is weak, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 17)
for life, he pleads with what is dead, for help, he goes begging to total inexperience, for a journey, what cannot even use its feet, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)
for profit, an undertaking, and success in pursuing his craft, he asks skill from something whose hands have no skill whatever. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)
Or someone else, taking ship to cross the wild waves, loudly invokes a piece of wood frailer than the vessel that bears him. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
Agreed, the ship is the product of a craving for gain, its building embodies the wisdom of the shipwright; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 2)
It is not your will that the works of your Wisdom should be sterile, so people entrust their lives to the smallest piece of wood, cross the waves on a raft, yet are kept safe and sound. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Why, in the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and, steered by your hand, preserved the seed of a new generation for the ages to come. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
For blessed is the wood which serves the cause of uprightness (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 7)
