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Wisdom 14:7-9
Wycliffe Bible
Wisdom 14:7-9
Wycliffe Bible
7 For why blessed is the tree (or the wood), by which rightfulness was made. [Blessed forsooth is the tree, by the which is done rightwiseness.]
8 But the idol which is made by hand(s) is cursed, both it, and he that made it, for soothly he wrought great trespass; soothly that idol, when it was frail, was named God (or a god). [The maumet forsooth, that is made by hands, is cursed, and it, and he that made it, for he wrought unbelievefulness; that forsooth, when it was brittle, is named God.]
9 Forsooth in like manner the wicked man and his wickedness be hateful to God. [(In) Like manner forsooth to hate be to God the unpious, and the unpiousness of him.]
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