Wisdom 15:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ For why a man made those, and he that borrowed a spirit, made those; for why no man may make a god like himself. [A man forsooth made them, and that the spirit borrowed, he feigned them; no man forsooth may make a god like to him.]

¹⁷ For since he is deadly (or mortal), by wicked hands he maketh a dead idol; for he is better than these gods, which he worshippeth; for soothly he lived, when he was deadly (or mortal), but they lived never. [When forsooth he be deadly, the dead he maketh with wicked hands; better forsooth is he than these, that he praiseth; for he forsooth lived, when he was deadly, they forsooth never.]

¹⁸ But also most wretched men worship beasts; for why unreasonable beasts, comparisoned to these men, be worse than they. [But and they most wretched praised beasts; witless forsooth, comparisoned to these, be worse than those.]