Wisdom 13:14-16

Revised Standard Version

¹⁴ or makes it like some worthless animal,
giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red
and covering every blemish in it with paint;
¹⁵ then he makes for it a niche that befits it,
and sets it in the wall, and fastens it there with iron.
¹⁶ So he takes thought for it, that it may not fall,
because he knows that it cannot help itself,
for it is only an image and has need of help.