Wisdom 15:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ whose appearance arouses yearning in fools,
so that they desire^[a] the lifeless form of a dead image.
⁶ Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope^[b]
are those who either make or desire or worship them.

⁷ A potter kneads the soft earth
and laboriously moulds each vessel for our service,
fashioning out of the same clay
both the vessels that serve clean uses
and those for contrary uses, making all alike;
but which shall be the use of each of them
the worker in clay decides.