Wisdom 15:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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 For when a potter kneads the soft earth
and laboriously molds each vessel for our service,
he fashions out of the same clay
both the vessels that serve clean uses
and those for contrary uses, making all in like manner;
but which shall be the use of each of these
the worker in clay decides.