3
For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
4
For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter's fruitless labour;
5
The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
6
Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
7
For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.