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Imagine someone who is about to set sail and cross the raging sea. He calls upon a piece of wood far more fragile than the boat that carries him. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
People are the work of your wisdom and you do not want them to remain idle. So they trust their lives to a small plank of wood and cross the sea safe and sound on a raft. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Blessed be the wood by which salvation was carried out! (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 7)
In this way the image became a pitfall for the living, for people bent down, either by misfortune or tyranny, gave to stones and wood the incommunicable Name. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
Do not argue with a talkative person; do not heap up wood on his fire. (Ecclesiasticus 8, 3)
Does the axe claim more credit than the man who wields it? Does the saw magnify itself more than the one who uses it? This would be like a rod wielding the man who lifts it up; will those not made of wood, be controlled by the cudgel? (Isaiah 10, 15)
The pyre has long been ready, prepared for the king. Broad and deep is its fire pit, piled up with dry grass and wood. The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, will set it ablaze. (Isaiah 30, 33)
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not true gods but made of wood and stone by human hands. (Isaiah 37, 19)
Or to wood that will not rot, chosen and fashioned by a skilled craftsman into an image that cannot move? (Isaiah 40, 20)
In like manner, the wood carver takes the measurement and marks the outline of an idol, carves it with chisels, giving it a bodily form and a human face that it may live in a shrine. (Isaiah 44, 13)
Not one of them has the intelligence to reflect and the sense to say, "Half of the log I burned, and on its embers I baked bread and roasted meat. Shall I then make a dirty idol of what remains? Am I to worship a block of wood?" (Isaiah 44, 19)
Come, gather together, and try to understand, survivors from among the nations: They are but fools they who follow idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot move - (Isaiah 45, 20)